Quotes About Survival

Benghazi sprawls in the path of war. Mars kicks the little city to earth and it rises again, stubbornly, and is reduced again, but not for long. It is a small city with a soul — a grubby soul, perhaps, but cities with souls seldom die.

It's how we survive the hurt in life that brings us strength and gives us beauty.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Perhaps the most profound miracle of all is living through something we thought would kill us.

God created male and female with an intricate balance of sameness and distinction, an impressive concoction of common part and counterpart. Each image bearers. Each of equal worth. Each necessary for a future. Each necessary for survival.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.

You can't just shoot your way out of every scenario in 'Resident Evil' games. You have to use your intelligence.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to buy my brother and me chocolate because we were living in Serbia at the time, and there were sanctions. If I catch myself complaining about going to a red carpet event, I say, 'Shut up.'

I'm doing modeling to stay alive. I don't enjoy my work. I don't find it creative. You don't need brains, and there are no heavy qualifications. All it takes is not to be shy and to dare to make a fool of yourself. But I shouldn't complain, because I am privileged enough to be overpaid.

I've been lucky enough to stand on both poles, but the place that seemed the remotest to me was Butugychag, a former gulag in Siberia. It is completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Siberia is a state of mind.

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.

I was in a tsunami with Simon Amstell.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

The Yazidi people, they are very - they just want a simple life.