Quotes About Survival

But there was a saying in Hebrew, "We survived Pharoah, we'll survive this too." In the words of the old joke, it was the theme of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, they failed, so let's eat!

Slow animals always become prey in the end.

So, how we doin'?" "Same as usual: dead people, a mystery, more dead people." "Who we lost?" "The boy. His guardians. Maybe Elliot Norton." "Shit, don't sound like we got anybody left. Anyone hires you better leave you your fee in their will.

all presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise.

Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.

The great revenge is to outlive your critics.

Fear was the key. The Crooked Man had learned that, faced with death, most men would do anything to stay alive. They would weep, beg, kill, or betray another to save their own skins. If he could make David afraid of his life, then he would give the Crooked Man what he desired.

VÅ¡ichni pÃ…â"¢edvádíme svÄ›tu jednu tváÃ…â"¢ a druhou skrýváme. Jinak bychom nedokázali pÃ…â"¢ežít.

Suppose a branch of our old family tree—a branch that seemed doomed to wither—had in fact not died out but survived, survived by learning arts just as new to the world but utterly different from the tool-making and fire-building of its grosser cousins, us. Suppose that instead they had learned concealment, smallification, disappearance, and some way to blind the eyes of beholders.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

But he began to lampoon the rise of Hitler, and soon his life was entangled in global politics. He was playing an engagement in Stockholm when the Nazis invaded Denmark in April 1940, and, believing himself to be on Hitler's "extermination list," he escaped to New York with his wife. He arrived in the United States with no personal belongings and ignorant of American customs and speech.

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.

I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.