Quotes About Survival

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.

As a kid growing up in Chicago, I've been shot at before. I remember I very calmly went down on the ground. Afterwards, you're like, 'Omigod.' You just don't have time to think.

My childhood was appalling.

I'd had a rough childhood.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Christians are being systematically exterminated.

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

It's quite possible that the end of us will not be the end of the Earth. Even if we really screw things up and things go badly for us and our civilization, the Earth is pretty resilient.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

A doctor in a hospital told me that when the mujaheddin were fighting in the early Nineties, he often performed amputations and Caesarean sections without anesthesia because there were no supplies.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

A successful birth is not a birth without drugs or monitors or surgery. A successful birth is when you're alive and the baby's alive.

People often express surprise that I'm not a psychopath. But it's not about what I want to do to other people, it's that I'm scared of what other people might do to me.

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.