Quotes About Survival

Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop.

Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.

I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.

They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.