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Quotes About Survival

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
~ Jack London
Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
~ Joan Halifax
I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By the time I'm 50, there is probably going to be a nuclear holocaust. I should just enjoy myself.
~ Grimes
One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday.
~ Jasinda Wilder
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
~ Peter Drucker
It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
~ Chubby Checker
I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time.
~ Edith Wilson
The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.
~ Julie Johnston
My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.
~ Theodore Kaczynski
Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.
~ Raymond Chandler
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
~ Tupac Shakur
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
~ Henry Miller
There must come a time when the bullets will run out
~ Susanna Clarke
My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.
~ Jaden Smith
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
~ Lisa Gardner
Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.
~ Kenneth C. Griffin
By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.
~ Bill Gates
Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.
~ Swami Paramananda
Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.
~ Roberto Duran