Quotes About Survival

Because they forgot and I remembered. They would be lost soon enough, and I would keep going. The best I could do was hold on to them after they forgot themselves.

America" would still be an unnamed continent full of migratory tribes chasing the rear end of a buffalo every time their stomachs growled.

Looking back, I was becoming extremely hard. You couldn't afford to have somebody care about you because you weren't really allowed to care about yourself. I didn't want people feeling sorry for me. I just wanted to survive. I

I was part of your train but my railroad car was disconnected and switched at the track, and now my friends and I are on a separate journey learning how not to rock the lifeboat, sending out a patient S.O.S to you for help. I reach out with love, possibly one of a dying breed, the old survival of the fittest theory, or perhaps I am throwing you a lifeline from my Rectangular Bubble.

Go away! Get out! Don't kill me! I've got a kitten at home. He needs me. Oh, yeah. I've also got a gun.

had a brush with death on an African safari.

She's thinking of signing up for Outward Bound next year. That's where they give you all this survival training, then send you out in the wilderness to be on your own for three days, with nothing but a few matches or something like that.

In such a situation, the only thing likely to ensure our survival may be a nuclear first strike of our own.

If not for the deer, the men would have shot each other for sport.

Having survived what he called the "public colonoscopy" of almost a year of campaigning, he could finally focus on the two dimensions of the contest that he had a real knack for: grassroots organizing—and winning.

When Taimour was hit by a bullet in the left shoulder, he began to stagger toward the man who shot him, reaching out with his hands. He remembered the look in the soldier's eyes. 'He was about to cry,' Taimour said three years later.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

The thing is, said Gilheeny, is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.

Day after day, day after day, we stuck nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.

Water, water everywhere Nor any drop to drink.

Water, water, every where And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Ne any drop to drink.

He'd wanted to die on the spot, but he had the rotten luck of living through it.

contract. I'm trying to get us through this alive, and I don't want my strategy compromised by an amateur with

Graham. These three men took away my virginity

Because crazy people weren't weaker than you—he'd often thought this about his mother—they were stronger. They outlasted you, even when they died. They would tread you underfoot without noticing.

Is only skew insanities, how God survive when we all kilt. How any person worship gods, when gods ain't even brave to die.

Sometimes you just have to go through the crash and see if you can walk away on two legs.

Generally, it can be said that any Arab house that survived the impact of the war . . . now shelters a Jewish family.