Quotes About Survival

She's not a monkey fuck, and she is not prey," Simon said, his voice a low, threatening rumble. "She is Meg.

But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.

Many kinds of prey had perfected the art of hiding sickness or injury to avoid being singled out when predators were hunting.

She looked so painfully cold he didn't have the automatic consideration of whether she'd be edible.

Earth natives didn't absorb everything from the forms they had chosen over the long years the sun had risen and set over Namid. They were first and always terra indigene. But they learned from the predators they became, and certain traits were passed down to the young of each form. Yes

It's also practical. Our survival depends on the goodwill we can generate.

Do you know what happened to the dinosaurs? The Others is what happened to the dinosaurs.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

I am someone who did not die when I should have died.

I'm someone who didn't die when I should have died.

You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal

Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.

I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.

many, despite the boom in oil and raw material prices, are finally dying.

Her pride had once been a mile wide. So fierce and strong that she'd thought she could survive on the trait alone. The constant ache in her belly, the desperation, Kenny's fate...all had shown her otherwise.

You are wickedly droll, Lord Downing. However do you survive with such wit at your disposal?" He smiled. "It is most troublesome.

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed." ~ A thought by Lessa ~

When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.

When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

As the historian David Bellos has concluded: 'About one third of all Jews resident in France were deported and murdered … but only one Jewish child in ten perished in the years of German occupation and that was very largely because of the courage and skill of people like Hélène Berr and the kindness and generosity of a vast network of French well-wishers who took Jewish children and hid them.' Notwithstanding, 11,400 French children died.

And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.