Quotes About Survival

It was a hard task catching fish every day, especially if the wind was blowing and the waves were high. Once when I could catch only two and dropped them into the pool, Mon-a-nee ate them quickly and waited for more. When he found that was all I had he swam around in circles, looking at me reproachfully. The

All night I sat there with the body of my brother and did not sleep. I vowed that someday I would go back and kill the wild dogs in the cave. I would kill all of them. I thought of how I would do it, but mostly I thought of Ramo, my brother.

If you run, your enemy will hunt you. Kill your enemy, and you are forever free.)

species that "fear rightly" increase their chances of survival. We anxious people are less likely to remove ourselves from the gene pool by, say, frolicking on the edge of cliffs or becoming fighter pilots.

Jon can barely afford enough drink to forget how poor he is, and

His raider captain, Tellor, stood beside him at the command center more accurately described as a table one of the junior personnel had scavenged. Resourceful

Reason is a makeshift thing, at best. We have used it but a scant half-million years; our instincts reach back to the days when we crawled in primeval ooze. Trust instinct.

We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.

The diamond absolutes. I am neither internee nor informer; An inner emigre, grown long-haired And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the massacre, Taking protective colouring From bole and bark, feeling Every wind that blows; Who, blowing up these sparks For their meagre heat, have missed The once-in-a-lifetime portent, The comet's pulsing tose.

Whoever has been spared the worst is lucky.

Now, you might think to increase those numbers, you might add thousands of fish. Think again. Fish live a Darwinian existence. A female walleye can lay 50,000 eggs in a single night, but in a stable population, all but two will perish before adulthood from predation, starvation, and other perils.

Darwin's great advantage over Paley and other thinkers of his generation was his grasp of the immensity of time. His

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

Survival in any meaningful sense is the key issue of our time

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

WindClan has traveled a long time. It's nearly a moon since ShadowClan drove us from our home. The weather is turning colder, and leaf-bare will be here soon. We have no choice but to stay.

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.

For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.