Quotes About Survival

In this day and age we care more about our pride than our lives.

This is a story about survival.Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.The things left unsaid...

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Her maktul katilinde yaÅŸamaya devam eder.

I hunt therefore I am.

Reason why scars form is to show that man can survive his own stupidity Anastasius Focht talking to Phelan Kell on the Dire Wolf

Yes, sir. I think this plan is marginally better than dying of asphyxiation or starvation out in empty space, and it has the virtue of novelty. Implacable couldn't anticipate we'd do it. Only crazy people could anticipate we'd do it.

a bold MechWarrior is one who manages to survive his own stupidity, and a hero is a bold MechWarrior who survives rescuing other bold MechWarriors from even greater stupidity.

The day after we returned from Iorn Fist I woke up and I want either one of them anymore. Somewhere in between a girl I thought was long dead and a woman that was too blood thirsty for me to particularly like. But I thought about all that had happened the day before and decided that I liked being alive. So I wanted to than you for not letting me die.

this world will not survive.

sharing information was the key to survival.

Those who tried to escape received the customary punishment, as Nicholson harrowingly described: After they had stripped the sufferer naked, they inserted the iron pointed stake into the lower termination of the vertebrae, and thence forced it up near his back bone, until it appeared between the shoulders, avoiding the vital parts. The stake was then raised in the air and the poor sufferer exposed to the view of the other slaves, writhing in…insupportable agony.

Someone once told me his idea for surviving a crash of civilization was to be a lone wolf, heading for the hills, with his rifle and knife, living off the land. Nowadays, I'm more interested in staying behind and helping others, he said, like after Hurricane Katrina. Coming together and rebuilding something that can last. How about BEFORE a disaster? I asked. Even better.

Long life wore away everything that was not essential.

Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of capture by enemy troops - that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating.

Even the most casual study of the record...would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a chicken.

It's a sinking ship, he said. You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.

My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There would be ample time for reproach in the event of their survival.

Most of all, he was tired of being a holdout, a sole survivor, the last coconut hanging on the last palm tree on the last little atoll in the path of the great wave of late-modern capitalism, waiting to be hammered flat.

We're just animals in a cage. They're just feeding us to keep us alive.

His illusions about American decency had not survived the reading of American history.

In Egypt, in Shushan, in the time of Judah Maccabee, God had intervened to deliver us with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; big deal. When we were sent to the ovens, God had sat with His outstretched thumb up His mighty ass and let us burn.

Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here. It was the only place left.