Quotes About Survival

before dawn of another day I would be swimming for my life in mid-ocean, under water and on the surface, in a temperature of 28 degrees Fahrenheit!

Dolores liked that story. Men were wolves and practical women took the knife to them, and those wolves, those sharp-toothed men, they didn't come back after that.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell.

Quem banca o Carneiro, e não o homem, a Onça chega por trás e come.

I wondered at all the ways abuse invents us

It is what it is and it's okay. I'll be okay, you'll be okay, and the world will keep turning.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Be studious to preserve your reputation; if that be once lost, you are like a cancelled writing, of no value, and at best you do but survive your own funeral.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

that where now there are two cases once there were 159, the rest having been destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the summer of 1944.

the ability of, say, a male praying mantis to continue coitus even as his mate chews off his head makes the point.

shaggy coat, and its stance made

The food that afternoon was served in tins that had contained Russian beef. It was three spoonfuls of boiled macaroni and a piece of bread. That was February 11, 1970. That day saw the beginning of a plan for biological and psychological experimentation more inhuman, brutal, and merciless than anything the western world had known with the exception of the Nazis' activities.

The men behind those iron palisades looked like skeletons; their faces were white and waxen from lack of sun. One of them was so emaciated that he seemed unreal. He didn't speak, he didn't wave or gesture, he was simply there, staring — he looked to me like a figure in a wax museum. However, not one of the men there could have spent more than two years and a few days in that jail. Just thinking about it sent a shiver of terror up my spine. Two years!

4. There are two types of fear: survival and illusory. The former is healthy and helpful while the latter is not. It is important to be able to distinguish between the two fears.

Hunger and cold were like two walls with no room for anything else in between but loneliness, in which a man is a stranger even to himself.

The hope killed them," said the old man. "It killed the very best of them. And hopelessness straightened out the very best of us.

Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

No, darling! To die it's easy... But you have to stuggle for life!