Quotes About Survival

The one thing that I learned from politics is you have to know how to watch your own back - and in some instances, you gotta watch your front, too.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.

Several hundred years ago, the only thing that slave families had was cooking and their family meals.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

The real world is harsh.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

Gaddafi's ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his use of violence in such a theatrical way.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the books you are attracted to.

For me, a theme that's always circling around in my head - which is why I love the horror genre - is what we're ready to do for metaphorical and physical survival.

scars are much tougher than virgin skin.

fired twice into a thick tree—three shots were the signal that you were lost, two was a standard response from a search team, and one shot could be mistaken for a hunter. You never sent a bullet into the air with the possible outcome of it returning to earth to find a living person

Because if you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. Survival in a desert, then, requires that you lose this fragmentation, and fast. It is not a mystical experience, or rather, it is dangerous to attach these sorts of words to it.

And so back up the ravines to the comfortable places (the sane ones?) where we don't have to think too much. Where life is, after all, just 'getting by' and where we survive, half asleep.

In different places, survival requires different things, based on the environment. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

Sometimes, we do things we don't feel good about to survive. It doesn't mean you're a bad person." His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn't cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.