Quotes About Survival

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

Before, time held no meaning with him. Now it's everything. Every second of my existence feels like it will be the last.

In time of macromental change, only the adaptable survive.

I'm sure she didn't mean what she said. Life's too short to hold grudges." "No, you just have to organize your time better, " Elaine said. "I believe in grudges. They help you survive.

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

It's not love that the past needs in order to survive, it's an absence of choices.

Hope can kill you but it will not let you die.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race!

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.

If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.

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

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.

Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.

sometimes we have no choice but to be selfish if we are to . . . survive" Excerpt From Someone to Hold