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Quotes About Survival

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.
~ Karl Marx
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
~ will.i.am
First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.
~ N. Katherine Hayles
Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.
~ Jason Hirschhorn
Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.
~ Nancy Kress
Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.
~ Kim Stanley
The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
~ The British Army Journal
You just can't take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is.
~ Sean Silcoff
The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion
~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
~ Rhys Darby
It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!
~ Carrie Vaughn, Steel
Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission.
~ Siobhan Davis, Saven Denial
Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
~ Alexia Purdy, Disarming
She had worried she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. She had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan, Untold
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive! I'm just grateful to be here at all.
~ Travis Barker
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
~ Barbara Boxer
There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.
~ Julius Nyerere
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
~ Willem de Kooning
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
~ Nan Goldin
All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
~ Galen
If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.
~ Yayoi Kusama
I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
~ James Stockdale
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.
~ Willie Nelson