Quotes About Survival

She was in so fast that she didn't have a chance to scream. The icy cold water stole her breath away…

Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills.

a freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand that this is really survival response...

I was nuts about him. Know what he did to me. First he gave me a phony name. Second, he was already married. Third, the minute the preacher said amen, he never did another tap of work. Then he stole my TV set and gave it to a car hop. When I asked him about that, he hit me with a chicken.

An ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing, in an orchard or garden.

The rap game is kinda crazy, so I go with the flow but make sure that I cover my bases and do whatever to make sure I'm good no matter what.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

I am just a journeyman actor. Most often I take what's offered me, and I've been able to work year after year. I was in 'Scarface.' Some people think this must have done me a world of good. Truth to tell, six months after 'Scarface' I had to take a job with a real estate development friend for a few months just to get by.

In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

Bigg Boss' is kind of a real world and now I've figured out a way to deal with things in the outside world in a better way.

We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.

I've had relationships before where you break up, and you think you're going to die, and then you realise you're definitely not going to die, and actually, you're probably better off without them.

After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I had food in the fridge. It was the point where I had an extra jumper on and no food in the fridge that I realised things had gone badly wrong.

It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

I don't have a diet. Jenny Craig got a diet. Seriously. I eat to live, not to die.

Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now.

In a world where you graduate with a theater degree from college, you gotta find your bread job. You gotta find that job to pay the bills.