Quotes About Survival

Solo i pesci morti vanno con la corrente

Il passato, come lei sa, è come certi torturati. Duro a morire.

E per noi ogni giorno è prezioso. E abbiamo i racconti. E sappiamo riparare le cose, voi no. E anche se il vento ci soffia contro, abbiamo sempre mangiato pane e tempesta, e passeremo anche questa.

Oui, je suis Mademoiselle Lycanthrope. Volete camminare con me signore, per le vie della Parigi notturna? E' una notte di luna quasi piena e noi quasi ci ameremo. Nessun urlo o ululato o macchia di sangue per strada. Solo una vaga malinconia. La luna, la luna, è una severa maestra. Anche stasera non uccidiamo. Balliamo. Domani forse, qualcuno ci ucciderà.

The idea that in prehistoric times a man would spend his life hunting only for the benefit of his own wife and children, who were dependent solely upon his hunting prowess for survival, is simply a projection of 1950s marital norms onto the past.

In Europe and the United States today such an arrangement would be a surefire recipe for jealousy, bitter breakups, and very mixed-up kids. But among the Bari people this practice was in the best interests of the child. The secondary fathers were expected to provide the child with fish and game, with the result that a child with a secondary father was twice as likely to live to the age of fifteen as a brother or sister without such a father.32

Couples in the Paleolithic world would never have fantasized about running off by themselves to their own little retreats in the forest. No Stone Age lovers would have imagined in their wildest dreams that they could or should be "everything" to each other. That way lay death.

Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl.

We neither have to adopt the literal versions of rebirth presented by religious tradition nor fall into the extreme of regarding death as annihilation. Regardless of what we believe, our actions will reverberate beyond our deaths. Irrespective of our personal survival, the legacy of our thoughts, words, and deeeds will continue through the impressions we leave behind in the lives of those we have influenced or touched in any way.

ten thousand years ago every human on the planet lived much as the Na'vi do, by hunting, fishing, and harvesting the fruits of the great wildwoods

But few birds flew nowadays. Why fly when there was nothing to flee

Even now the blind scalpels of evolution took raw material adapted for a vanished world, and cut and shaped it for the conditions of the new.

It was a cold-blooded lottery that paid off often enough to be worthwhile adapting for.

And if you were part of a group there was always the chance that the predator would take the next guy, not you.

I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words. you WON today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You can wait out a bad situation. Move on. Fight Back. Get out. Break Up. Call. Ask her (or him) out. Write that book. Write that song. Listen to the music. Take the drive. Take the chance. And Live. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words. you WON today. You are here. You are alive. You have options. You an wait out a bad situation. Move on. Fight Back. Get out. Break Up. Call. Ask her (or him) out. Write that book. Write that song. Listen to the music. Take the drive. Take the chance. And Live. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

cuando llegue el momento, va a romper el cristal entre el mundo imaginario y el tuyo. Y solo sobrevivira un mundo

You are part of an infinite family. The people who have been through terrible things and survived them. If you are reading these words, you WON today, You are here. You are alive. You have options. Whatever strategy you choose, you WIN.

Anglo-Saxon and Franco-Norman came into closer contact, and the linguistic survival techniques on both sides led to the emergence of a supple, adaptable language in which you could invent or half-borrow words and didn't have to worry so much about whether your sentences had the right verb endings or respected certain strict rules of word order and style (as this sentence proves). The result was the earliest form of what would become English.

Arby's: If I was about to be killed, I would eat it.

She performed nearly all the house-work in exchange for the privilege of existence. Every

The Indian, in truth, no longer has a country. He is reduced to starvation or to warring to the death. The Indian´s first demand is that the white man shall not drive off his game and dispossesses him of his lands. How can we promise this unless we prohibit emigration and settlement...The end is sure and dreadful to contemplate. General John Pope

Ethnic Germans also surrendered. Even veterans of the Eastern Front. Corp. Friedrich Bertenrath of the 2nd Panzer Division explained, In Russia, I could imagine nothing but fighting to the last man. We knew that going into a prison camp in Russia meant you were dead. In Normandy, one always had in the back of his mind, 'Well, if everything goes to hell, the Americans are human enough that the prospect of becoming their prisoner was attractive to some extent.