Quotes About Survival

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship – one girl, really – had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city's millions. Then the wind shifted, and Alek breathed in the burnt-meat smells that filled the room behind him. Important enough for him to kill a man, it seemed.

?nsan?n do?as? s?n?rl?d?r," diye devam ettim. "Sevince, kedere, ac?lara ancak belli bir dereceye dek dayanabilir ve o derece a??l?rsa, insan yok olur. Yani söz konusu olan, birinin güçlü ya da zay?f olup olmad??? de?ildir! Kendi ya?ant?s?na ne ölçüde dayanabiliyor, mesele budur!

Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty.

Exist?, f?r? îndoial?, ?i pe uscat naufragii.

I save my screams for murder attempts

We have this bias toward attractiveness because of out selfish-gene history: the unconscious mandate to reproduce, reproduce, reproduce, so that we as species don't go extinct. This deep-seated urge is so strong that studies have shown that men's mating motives are triggered by the mere presence of attractive women, even when they are trying to focus on something else.

Thomas—Jefferson—still surv—

Brains exist because the distribution of resources necessary for survival and the hazards that threaten survival vary in space and time.

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

This was in the days when I was making myself over. So difficult it was, to judge just so, to forge the fine discriminations, to maintain a balance--no one could know how difficult. If it had been a work of art I was fashioning they would have applauded my mastery. Perhaps that was my mistake, to do it all in secret, instead of openly, with a flourish. They would have been entertained; they would have forgiven me; Harlequin is always forgiven, always survives.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

To the French, sin—provided it is conceived with imagination and carried off with flair—is like the dust on an old bottle of burgundy, the streaks of gray in the hair of a loved one, the gleam of long, loving use on the mahogany of an ancient cabinet. It's evidence of endurance, of survival, of life.

Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Money is life. Not in the sense that without money you starve. Not in the sense that capital gives one class power over the entire lives of another class. But in the sense that money is the token of, and the key to, every human capacity. The power to spend money is the power to live.

Sorrel soup: "You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp green acidity and the round comfort of the egg reminds you of something extraordinary and far away. Of home? Certainly not, not even for Poles. Of what then? ...Of survival, perhaps.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Avoid arguments. They are a distraction from survival. If you lose, you feel more a loser than usual. If you win, you have made an enemy. --John Berger

Los tangos están hechos por pedazos de vida que han sobrevivido por casualidad

The tombstones are not very different from those in other European cemeteries. Many record the deaths of several generations: the name, the year of birth, the day of death and the place of death, if it was not on the island. A name and two dates, the last one precise to the very day. This is what is recorded. About what happened between, apart from the bare fact of survival, not a word is written.

I don't see how Henry, priedopen for all the world to see, survived.

I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.

I don't know, Doctor. But I'd suggest you arm yourself and kill anyone who looks to be in need of it.