Quotes About Survival

I believe, I truly believe, that humans will be living off of this planet, at some point in the future. It's inevitable for us, and it seems like a reasonable and realistic progression for us as a human race. We won't last on this planet - not forever.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

There are periods on the mountain when you exist between living and dying, sometimes for days. I went through that with my brother on Nanga Parbat. It is very difficult, but it is the most intense experience. And always after such experiences, when I was back among people, I felt I had been reborn.

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

The early-'80s recession was good for good restaurants, not least because it put bad ones out of business.

The Internet is a giant 'lab experiment' for corporate America, and those companies that recognise this and play well within the rules of ambiguity and fluidity will survive and win.

The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

I have always been able to handle situations well once they've happened to me.

When you speak about teams who are experienced in the fight against relegation, the teams are used to handling this kind of situation. The teams who are not so experienced in this sort of thing have more difficulties to handle the pressure and the disappointments.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

I didn't know what freedom was. I didn't even know the word. I didn't know the concept. I never heard of that word, 'freedom.' To me, the happiest thing was having food.

If Bigg Boss' locks me inside the house, I would happily spend my days.

You have to remember, I had come from a pretty hard life. There was all this abuse and everything else, so the idea of fighting for sport was pretty heavy. Fighting to me was about fighting for your life, you know.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

In the harrowing aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, one of the greatest needs became desperately clear: safe water.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

I mean I could not trust men again. I hated men. I hated humanity. How on earth can people sell each other?

Everyone on 'The Apprentice' hates each other. They put you in a room, and they don't give you anything to do. They leave you there for 10 hours... they don't give you any food or water, and you start getting angry and arguing with each other.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'

Wars are hard to look at head-on.