Quotes About Survival

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive.

An adventure is somebody else slogging through the mud and snow while suffering from trench foot, ringworm, dysentery and starvation being chased by people with their hearts set on murder or more. I have been there. I have done that, playing both parts. I do not recommend it. Be content with a nice farm or shop. Make lots of babies and bring them up to be good people.

Only way you're gonna have a world with universal equality is if you got one where there's only one guy left standing.

Wyszed?em my?l?c, ?e ja i Kompania wdepn?li?my w to po uszy. K?opoty ze wszystkich stron. ?onglowali?my zbyt wielk? liczb? pi?ek naraz. Z tym, ?e nie by?y to pi?ki, lecz no?e o zatrutych ostrzach.

The wisest peasants were those who fled early. Their children will repopulate the land.

Nací para poeta o para muerto, escogí lo difícil —supervivo de todos los naufragios—, y sigo con mis versos, vivita y coleando. Nací para puta o payaso, escogí lo difícil —hacer reír a los clientes desahuciados—, y sigo con mis trucos, sacando una paloma del refajo. Nací para nada o soldado, y escogí lo difícil —no ser apenas nada en el tablado—, y sigo entre fusiles y pistolas sin mancharme las manos.

De la vida por ahora no me cerrarán la puerta, besaré por no morir amaré por no estar muerta.

According to the mate, there were three main jobs that needed to be done to ensure their survival.

Hey, things like that happen at the Academy too," I insisted, almost triumphantly. "Last year the freezers failed so there was no ice for"—the wind went out of my sails as I realized how lame this was going to sound—"the sushi bar." He nodded sympathetically. "You guys should get T-shirts made. You know: I Survived the Sushi Crisis.

That Mesozoic mama's boy wouldn't have lasted five seconds in the Cretaceous period.

Brilliant as he was, Jake was not a Cahill, and he couldn't possibly understand the lesson they'de learned in the search for the 39 Clues. There was no point worrying about what might have happened. As long as you were still alive, still in the hunt, that was a good day…. Amy and Dan lived in the moment, because hard experience had taught them that there was no other time.

It had been a seven-year string of bad luck, ever since their parents died in that house fire.

Another of my crimes against humanity, like bullying her brother, and not dying when I fell off the roof.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes.

What matters finally is not the world's judgement of oneself but one's own judgement of the world. Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America

Once she had an infected tooth that was getting progressively worse along a trip. Getting help was simply too dangerous, so she knocked out her top row of teeth with the handle of the gun she always carried. Now that's commitment.

International politics is not unlike the jungle: smaller and weaker animals require acute intelligence, sensitive antennae, and nimbleness of footing to assure their own self-preservation; the strong—such as elephants—need pay less attention to ambient conditions and can often do as they wish, and others will get out of the way.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

What makes a man, without hope, cling to a few more minutes of existence?

Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies first from anxiety or a bullet or overwork. If you have to earn a living...and the price they make you pay is loyalty, be a double agent--and never let either of the two sides know your real name.

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.

On pouvait être a court de nourriture dans le pays, il y avait toujours de la couleur.

You kill a man – that is so easy,' Dr Hasselbacher said, 'it needs no skill. You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man – that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him. Germs are killed by other germs. People just survive.