Quotes About Survival

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

I've seen so many women in my family, so many mothers, that have lost children in the war in such absurd ways. I wonder how they do it. How do they keep living? How do they keep smiling?

Salomon Brothers, E. F. Hutton, Shearson, Lehman, Smith Barney... all these firms disappear, and the Street just rolls on.

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.

We hid from the Nazis in the mountains. Sometimes there was nothing to eat but snow.

I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free. But what I did was nothing, so many people fought harder than me and didn't make it.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Everything that lives, it seems, must play host to the germ of its own dissolution.

Artificial selection has become a much more important chapter in natural history as it has moved into the space once ruled exclusively by natural selection.

By producing sugars and proteins to entice animals to disperse their seed, the angiosperms multiplied the world's supply of food energy, making possible the rise of large warm-blooded mammals. Without flowers, the reptiles, which had gotten along fine in a leafy, fruitless world, would probably still rule. Without flowers, we would not be.

Resistance is essentially a form of coevolution that occurs when a given population is threatened with extinction.

I had to go to literature to survive. It was through literature such as Black Spring that I came to a deeper understanding of my place and time and allowed me to come to where I am today and to achieve what I've achieved today.

We all drift on the same raft. There is only one question. What sort of shipwrecked man shall I be?

But you do not die because you are sick, you die because you are alive.

This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listening to the rats.

There's always places where things aren't so bad: cheaper accommodation, cheaper food, cheaper fuel. You go there and it's OK for a while. Then it stops being OK and you get the hell out.