Quotes About Survival

aunque obviamente los humanos hemos sobrevivido a cualquier virus o meteorito que la naturaleza nos ha lanzado hasta ahora, la tecnología es algo que nosotros nos lanzamos a nosotros mismos por nuestra cuenta y riesgo.

Al igual que nuestro pariente el chimpancé, siempre nos hemos matado unos a otros para disputarnos el territorio y las hembras, pero con el advenimiento de la esclavitud nos redujimos a nosotros mismos a algo nuevo: a un cultivo de exportación.

When we're down to eating our ancestors," she asked, "what is left?

The persecution that was destroying me had become a necessity.

I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.

War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

Do not however suppose that the conclusion to be drawn will turn out to be one of despair. Angst is an intermittently fashionable emotion and the misreading of some existentialist texts has turned despair itself into a kind of psychological nostrum. But if we are indeed in as bad a state as I take us to be, pessimism too will turn out to be one more cultural luxury that we shall have to dispense with in order to survive in these hard times.

That morning I'd read that construction workers in London had discovered a young fox living off their leftover sandwiches on the unfinished seventy-second floor of the Shard, the UK's tallest building.

Alastair Humphreys

Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon's Children. Orphans of the storm. We'd endured the worst the world could throw at us, the worst consequences of our own stupidity, and came through ... ready to face the dawn. But there are always more storms, Chiku.

Adapt and survive. Make do and mend. These were good mottos for a time traveller.

We're all Poseidon's children, Geoffrey: whether we like it or not." "Poseidon's children," he repeated. "Is that supposed to mean something?" "We came through. That's all. We weathered the absolute worst that history could throw at us, and we thrived. Now it's time to start doing something useful with our lives.

Let me explain something about survival. You do not worry about the third or fourth stepping stone until you have successfully traversed the first and second. Anything beyond them is a diversion of energies away from the immediate moment.

He knew what he was doing. You probably weren't meant to die." "And that makes me lucky? It wasn't remotely unlucky to end up impaled on a wall in the first place? Just a thought.

They would continue to live in New Tiamaat, orbiting Crucible.

Her situational training emphasised immediate practicalities: what it took to remain alive for the next minute, and the minute after that, rather than concerning herself with ten minutes or an hour from now. It was hard-won pragmatism, distilled from hundreds of real-world scenarios faced by earlier generations of prefects. The lesson was that it worked—most of the time.

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

In the Bigg Boss' house, you don't have phones, you don't have places to run away. The only options are fight or flight.