Quotes About Survival

Whenever I opened one, T. Ray said, "Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?" The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival.

Who do you think you are, Julius Shakespeare?" The man sincerely thought that was Shakespeare's first name, and if you think I should have corrected him, you are ignorant about the art of survival. He also referred to me as Miss Brown-Nose-in-a-Book and occasionally as Miss Emily-Big-Head-Diction. He meant Dickinson, but again, there are things you let go by.

Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require its social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die. —The Queen Must Die: And Other Affairs of Bees and Men

She'll outlive the last cockroach

I'd always taken my hope from mauma and she was gone.

Crockery broke and fabric frayed. The delicate things I cared about perished, while the hard things like swords survived.

She had been meant to die, yet she'd cut her way out of that fate and back to the world she loved.

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked.

Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy.

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.

Si, réduits au désespoir, ils viennent pour vaincre ou pour périr, évitez leur rencontre. À un ennemi encerclé vous devez laisser une voie de sortie.

Military action is important to the nation -- it is the ground of death and life, the path of survival and destruction, so it is imperative to examine it.

Do not press an enemy at bay. Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of men! If they know there is no alternative they will fight to the death.

Hay que dejarle una salida a un ejército rodeado. Muéstrales una manera de salvar la vida para que no estén dispuestos a luchar hasta la muerte, y así podrás aprovecharte para atacarles. No presiones a un enemigo desesperado. Un animal agotado seguirá luchando, pues esa es la ley de la naturaleza.

War is a place of life and death, a path towards survival and destruction.

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Put them in a spot where they have no place to go, and they will die before fleeing.

Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

I can't decide which is worse, no electricity or unreliable electricity. I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.