Quotes About Survival

Résumé Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.

The only species of animal that tries to get by in the wilderness without interspecific tact of communication is the human critter.

They'd been afloat now without food, water, shelter, or sleep for over forty hours. Of the 1,196 crew13 members who'd set sail from Guam three days earlier, probably no more than 600 were still alive. In the previous twenty-four hours alone, at least 200 had likely slipped beneath the waves or been victims of shark attack. Since the sinking, each boy had been floating through the hours asking himself the same hard question: Will I live, or do I quit?

Later, Dean would see Atta's fighters show up carrying AK-47s, and there with them would be their sons, carrying spare magazines. Behind the sons walked even younger sons, carrying nothing. Dean understood that in this kind of fighting, the sons who carried nothing would pick up either a gun or a magazine if the fathers or brothers were killed. The look on the faces of the kids seemed to indicate to Dean that they expected to die.

The sharks had, in fact, remained a constant presence throughout the men's ordeal, even during the daylight hours. Not long after [navy pilot] Gwinn showed up, a massive shark attack--involving an estimated thirty fish--had, in about fifteen minutes, taken some sixty boys perched on a floater net.

I need to believe in her stories as much as she does. That Lothar Berfelde navigated a path between the two most repressive regimes the Western World has ever known - the Nazis and the Communists - in a pair of heels.

If this is the Big One, he thought while the window rattled, will I be buried with Greg and Les, and will we end up drawing straws to see who eats who? Will Greg's porky arm taste good, or will it taste as bad as he looks? Will I have to eat my toes one by one, like Vienna sausages?

She thought about her life and how lost she'd felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she'd been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

Survival of the fittest

We all come from an uninterrupted line of humanity's winners. Like gunfighters in the Old West, just being alive means that you're undefeated.

I'm sure you remember how we survived the alien invasion in H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds," she continued. "Our bacteria got them. Given my job, the final passage of this novel is my all-time favorite. Wells wrote that the moment the invaders landed, and I quote, 'our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. It was inevitable.

During times of scarcity at least, yes. This is one probable explanation for why most life on Earth, including ours, is programmed to die." Desh's

A narrator pointed out that the process of natural selection once ensured that the strongest, smartest, or fastest reproduced in the greatest numbers. But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn't reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.

Human evolution favors anxiety over happiness.

Evolution can work through competition, but it can work through cooperation also. Take a beehive.

Survival of the fittest was harsh reality. In the animal kingdom it was eat or be eaten.

the process of natural selection once ensured that the strongest, smartest, or fastest reproduced in the greatest numbers. But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn't reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.

its outer Amazon coating was quickly shredded as incoming fire skinned the vehicle alive, revealing the carbyne-reinforced structure underneath. It was like a Terminator whose face had been torn off to reveal the gleaming, indestructible skeleton within.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

evolution didn't reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.

Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.

In most jobs, one learned from one's mistakes. Unfortunately, in our job, a single mistake usually led to a swift death, and corpses were notoriously stubborn when it came to learning from bad experiences.

The great martial artist Bruce Lee had once commented, "If someone comes at you with a sword, run if you can. Kung Fu doesn't always work." In

If you're able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don't continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.