Quotes About Survival

Here's how much some people dislike living Jews: they murdered 6 million of them. This fact bears repeating, as it does not come up at all in Anne Frank's writing. Readers of her diary are aware that the author was murdered in a genocide, but this does not mean that her diary is a work about genocide. If it were, it is unlikely that it would have been anywhere near as universally embraced.

Earth won't let a whole race, a whole species, be destroyed.

Un antiguo proverbio reza: «Si las hienas te van pisando los talones, arrójales para que se alimenten el más jugoso de los bocados: un cordero recién nacido. Ya verás, cuando abran las mandíbulas para triturar a su presa, no hay hiena ni chacal que preste atención al resto».

mejor estar vivos, mientras sigamos vivos!

Who understands the thrill of seeing the first bright flowers of spring so clearly as one who has just lived through the long, hard winter?

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

That's the part of it I [Sam Spade] always liked. He [Flitcraft] adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to their not falling.

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

Tu presencia es la clave de nuestra paz, protección y prosperidad. Ven con nosotros. Tu presencia es la fuente de nuestra supervivencia y éxito. Sin ti, pronto dejaremos de existir".

This simple fact explains an awful lot about the biology and conservation of bumblebees. They have to eat almost continually to keep warm; a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation. If a bumblebee runs out of energy, she cannot fly, and if she cannot fly, she cannot get to flowers to get more food, so she is doomed

a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation.

We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disappear tomorrow, I think the world would muddle through pretty well. Some things might even get better. But if farmers were to vanish, most of us would be dead within a year.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

probability of loss of life after a traumatic event can be greater than loss of life during the event.

after 60 days and nights of constant combat, 98 percent of all soldiers became psychiatric casualties.

The fight-or-flight dichotomy is the appropriate set of choices for any creature faced with danger other than that which comes from its own species.

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Can we teach our officers to shoot too well? I don't think so. If we trained our officers in first aid, and everyone they treated survived, did we train them too well? If we trained our officers in driving, and they never had anymore accidents, did we train them too well? If someone must die in an armed encounter, let it be the subject who is initiating the hostile action, and not another officer.

When a man is frightened, he literally stops thinking with his forebrain (that is, with the mind of a human being) and begins to think with the midbrain (that is, with the portion of his brain that is essentially indistinguishable from that of an animal), and in the mind of an animal it is the one who makes the loudest noise or puffs himself up the largest who will win.

There is strong evidence that there exists a genetic predisposition for aggression. In all species the best hunter, the best fighter, the most aggressive male, survives to pass his biological predispositions on to his descendants. There are also environmental processes that can fully develop this predisposition toward aggression; when we combine this genetic predisposition with environmental development we get a killer.