Quotes About Survival

Billy always survived. Like a cockroach. The world's smartest, meanest, craziest cockroach.

We all do stupid things, Conscience. If they don't kill us, they weren't stupid enough, I guess.

It all happened. It wasn't a dream. And I'm still alive. I guess that's something.

The pain would find him. The pain always found him.

rarely do the 'significant events' in our lives change us. At least, not in any way we want. The people who suffer tragedy and go on to greatness? They're the stuff of movies and TV shows and books, and--only very rarely--real life. Most of us just go on, the walking wounded, dealing with our lives. This doesn't make us bad--it just means we're not superheroes. It means we're just people, like everyone else.

I have to stop getting shot

Women in the presence of their children were the deadliest of the species.

Most of us just go on, the walking wounded, dealing with our lives.

Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere.

just rub two Boy Scouts together for a spark. If

Sprawled out on the front lawn/ looking up at an ordinary sky/ it could fall on me and some how be/ the day I didn't die.

Y porque toda la gente que huir podía se encerraba en los montes y subía a las sierras huyendo de hombres tan inhumanos, tan sin piedad y tan feroces bestias, extirpadores y capitales enemigos del linaje humano, ense

secábaseles la leche de las tetas a las mujeres paridas, e así murieron en breve todas las criaturas. Y por estar los maridos apartados, que nunca vían a las mujeres, cesó entre ellos la generación; murieron ellos en las minas, de trabajos y hambre, y ellas en las estancias o granjas, de lo mesmo, e así se acabaron tantas e tales multitúdines de gentes de aquella isla; e así se pudiera haber acabado todas las del mundo.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Never underestimate the kick to the groin.

Thus through the folly of a single hot-headed general, whose offensive spirit was not balanced by judgment, the Empire suffered a blow from which it never recovered-although it had sufficient power of endurance to survive, in a diminished form, for a further four hundred years.

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.

When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.

I think what I realized is that I can't believe I made it to 50 years old.

Going through chemo is like investing money in a retirement account. You feel the hit right now, but later in life you get to reap the benefits - by still being alive.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.