Quotes About Survival

Finally, we must believe that we are pursuing true goals—not merely effective ones. Darwinian evolution leaves no room for the true; it only leaves room for the evolutionarily beneficial.

When you can't fight or flee," she says, "you flow.

My patients are people who live on the edge of survival and beyond," he writes in his excellent book Surviving the Extremes.

Fourth, lucky people have a special ability to turn bad luck into good fortune. Of all four defining factors involved in luck, Wiseman believes this one plays the most important role in survival.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

A belief in the immortality of the human soul, of the survival of the person beyond death, is one of the most important expressions of human hope.

My people are the Hill People. They are the men. I go into the Dead Places but I am not slain. I take the metal from the Dead Places but I am not blasted. I travel upon the god-roads and am not afraid.

Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering up like withered arms, Writhing like streams, like twisted charms Of hot lead flung in snow. Below The iron ice stung like a goad, Slashing the torn shoes from my feet, And all the air was bitter sleet.

For those slain at once. For those living through the months and years Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day To the work or the queue for meat or the secret club, Living meanwhile, begetting children, smuggling guns, And found and killed at the end like rats in a drain.

Era la enfermedad general, ya crónica, que se agravaba. Mas no por ello moría el enfermo: España tenía fibra y agallas para resistir la tanta calamidad; su sobriedad de mendigo le garantizaba la existencia; su pasividad fatalista le permitía seguir arrastrándose y dando tumbos, hasta que vinieran hombres y tiempos mejores, los cuales... ¡ay! también podría suceder que no vinieran.

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

If you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

School is pure psycology warfare.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

If there had been a Jewish state in the first half of the century, there would have been no Holocaust. And if there had not been a Jewish state after the Holocaust, there would have been no Jewish future. The State of Israel is not only the repository of the millennial Jewish hopes for redemption; it is also the one practical instrument for assuring Jewish survival.

Plagues don't just kill people—and that's what lobos is, a plague—they kill humanity.

It's like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for love, even their life. And don't you see, that's a denial of the most basic of all human instincts: survival.

Many economists are great believers in the idea that everything in nature is competitive and that we should set up a society which is competitive to reflect that. Anyone who cannot keep up, well, too bad.

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.

I probably wouldn't have made it this far if I were a refugee.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.