Quotes About Survival

If wars were fought only by the men on the ground, the men facing one another in real battle, most wars would end quickly and sensibly. Men are smart and men are animals, in that they don't want to die so simply for so little.

There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.

Tante pagine sublimi sono state date alle fiamme, mentre questi documenti schifosi stanno ancora qui nella mia biblioteca.

Si des critiques avaient survécu, sans doute auraient-ils reproché à l'auteur quelque chose comme un pessimisme trop caricatural et un manque de foi dans les capacités de l'humanité à se régénérer après le malheur, mais, par chance pour la réception de la pièce, les journalistes et les juges littéraires avaient, comme toute le monde ou presque, été réduits en mottes charbonneuses (Black Village, page 74)

il y a ce qui subsiste d'une usine dont le cœur atomique est en feu depuis trois cent soixante-deux ans.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. Its better to live somehow than not at all.

Life's a struggle against acting, which claims more lives than all the other drugs of the world put together.

ut res magis valeat quam pereat).

Antonio J. Méndez

La humanidad posee cuatro cosas que no son útiles en el mar: Timones, anclas, remos y el temor de hundirse.

Humanity on earth is largely because of the people living below the line of poverty

News channels both mainstream and social media are battling for its survival as its credibility has already gone below ground to minus level. but instead of doing something for citizens trust revival on its reports, media continues to dig deeper hole for itself through dubious stories shovel and has become completely nude & shameless by throwing all its towel.

Poisonous snake will naturally make relationship with the venomous reptiles only, but eventually either he will eat them or they will devour him.

The companies don't normally induct talented engineers especially from premier institutions in their sales & marketing functions unless and until it is the only option left for their survival.

A poor man is a living dead one.

If you think your own life hard, and would like to leave it for a short hour I recommend you to beg, borrow or steal this tale, and read and see how the penguins live. It is all quite true.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

The point, one begins to see, was not merely to survive; it was to come through intact, true to one's most decent self — in short, to survive as English gentlemen.

Poor trustful creatures! If I could have done it then, I would gladly have killed them rather than picture them starving on that floe out on the Ross Sea, or eaten by the exultant Killers that cruised around.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

Those Hut Point days, would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep warm, no more - no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life...the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

From the masthead one can see a few patches of open water in different directions, but the main outlook is the same scene of desolate hummocky pack.

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.