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Quotes About Survival

You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah, Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Like I said, I know bullies. Deflect, deflect, make them think they got their way even when they didn't, but never actually give in to them. Become innocuous, not worth tormenting or thinking about.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Well," Clarice said, once the pirates were safely out of earshot. "Nobody shot us." "Yet," Dominick answered.
~ Mercedes Lackey
There are times when—when being alone is a hurt that's worse than dying. When it's easier to die than to be alone. Aren't there?
~ Mercedes Lackey
cowering in their houses like rabbits in a burrow, and dare the Forest themselves again.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Weapons master is giving me special lessons. she (Amily) chuckled. He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.
~ Mercedes Lackey
It was partly a matter of the simple fact that late fall was slaughtering time. Anything that could not be preserved had to be eaten. For instance, hens too old to lay eggs anymore and all the roosters but the chief of the flock were often killed at this time.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Survival is a form of resistance.
~ Meridel Le Sueur
The lives of the Outer Dwellers had become almost normal again. Bitterness was their bread and rivalry their wine.
~ Mervyn Peake
You climb only because the mountain allows it. If it says wait, then you must wait, and when it allows you to go, then you must struggle and strain in the thin air with all your might. Listening to the mountain and having patience on it are the keys to survival.
~ Bear Grylls
Sometimes an ember is all we need.
~ Bear Grylls
He had forgotten the golden rule of cold, which the DS had told us over and over: 'Don't let yourself get cold. Act early, while you still have your senses and mobility. Add a layer, make shelter, get moving faster – whatever your solution is, just do it.
~ Bear Grylls
These made Trucker and me look back on the summer Selection days as quite balmy and pleasant! It is strange how accustomed you become to hardship, and how what once seemed horrific can soon become mundane.
~ Bear Grylls
If we were caught pointing at a map with a finger, instead of a blade of grass or something sharp, we had been threatened, by the unforgettable Sgt Taff, that he would 'Rip that finger off and beat you to death with the soggy end!' It's a threat that I enjoy passing on to my boys when we are reading a map together nowadays.)
~ Bear Grylls
So suddenly here we are. Six years on. I genuinely never believed we would film more than six episodes of Man vs. Wild , let alone six seasons. I mean, where has the time gone? I also really had no idea quite how many hellholes, remote jungles, stinking swamps, searing deserts, and forbidding, unexplored mountain ranges we have on this small planet of ours. People forget. Me included.
~ Bear Grylls
Trucker and I hoped simply to try and stay "gray men" and not be noticed. To put our heads down and get on and quietly do the work. This didn't exactly go according to plan. "Where are the lads who speak like Prince Charles?" The 23 DS shouted on the first parade when we arrived. "Would you both like newspapers with your morning tea, gents?" the DS sarcastically enquired. Part of me was tempted to answer how nice that would be, but I resisted.
~ Bear Grylls
Base Camp, We need advice. ... We've run out of Earth
~ Bear Grylls
Rozhlížel se kolem po nÄ›jakém kameni, kterým by se zabil. Žádný vÅ¡ak nenaÅ¡el. Musel to utrpení vydržet.
~ Bear Grylls
Instinct doesn't always tell us to choose the easier path, but it will guide you towards the right one. Your subconscious intuition wants you to survive and to thrive. It isn't clouded by ego or others' opinions - those fickle things live in the conscious mind. Your instinct has a clearer purpose: to help you. Listen to it. Learn to recognize it. Acknowledge it when it speaks and have faith in it. Instinct is the nose of the mind. So trust it.
~ Bear Grylls
Our next test weekend was in a particularly hellish area of the Welsh mountains--remote, godforsaken, and full of even more boggy, ankle-twisting moon grass. The area became known affectionately by the other recruits as simply: "The asshole of the world.
~ Bear Grylls
You see, we are all a bit like grapes: when you squeeze us, you see what we are made of. And I believe that most people are far stronger than they ever imagine. It is refined within us from thousands of years of having to survive as a species. It might be dusty and hidden away, but it is there somewhere inside you: the heart of a survivor. Courage. Tenacity. Strength. So don't shy away from hard times, they are your chance to shine.
~ Bear Grylls
ZkouÅ¡eli jste nÄ›kdy vyhrabat ze snÄ›hu auto? No tak zkuste vyhrabat lo? z antarktického ledu.
~ Bear Grylls
70. Sometimes An Ember Is All You Need In the wild, an ember, a single spark, can save your life. And it can change your life, too.
~ Bear Grylls
Sleep was our deadliest enemy. Every mountaineer knows that if you allow yourself to be taken down by that cold, it is a one-way ticket to death. There are no exceptions. Your core temperature plunges until your heart stops. So we yelled at each other, and hit each other and kicked each other. Anything to remain awake.
~ Beck Weathers