Quotes About Survival

There will be no warning vocalizations before the dog leaps on grabs and shakes the "prey.

spotting and stopping them? After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager—by her high school boyfriend—she's determined to understand how someone she trusted

Stories of individual animals must now be told. Not stats and population densities, but characters in stories that very much mirror our own daily struggles to survive. An individual, well loved, even heroic wolf like OR7 with whom we've so deeply identified can never be a statistic again.

I was deep behind enemy lines, in the very heart of the enemy camp.

The reality is that men look at women, and men look at other men, and women look at men, and women especially size up other women and objectify them. Has anybody who's ever been on a dating app recently not seen how our Darwinian impulses are gratified by a swipe or two? This, in order for our species to survive, is the way of the world and it's never going to be modified or erased.

we pose a serious threat to the very existence of humanity.

Never trust a river, Dylan. Give a river even half a chance, and it'll try to kill you.

To survive is to kindle the search for why survival matters. Technicians inevitably become philosophers. Or scientists. Or theologians. Or writers. Or composers. Or musicians. Or artists. Or poets. Or devotees of thousands of variations and combinations of systems of thought and creative expression that promise insight into the very questions that gnaw at our insides long after our stomachs are full.

Life could leave the ocean when it learned to grow a skin, a bag in which to take the water with it.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

As a human being, I was born on the brink of personal destruction, and I have spent my life dancing along the edge of that cliff.

Dhartha's deep blue eyes flashed. "This is not about pride, Aurelius Venport. This is only about killing a pest of the desert.

It's said that the Fremen scum drink the blood of their dead. Not the blood, sir. But all of a man's water ultimately, belongs to his people - to his tribe./ The human body is composed of some seventy percent water by weight./ A dead man, surely, no longer REQUIRES that water.

Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.

No matter the challenge, his people knew how to endure.

You will have to rebuild an entire city." Xavier looked at Rhengalid with little sympathy. "But you can do that only because you are alive and free.

Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way. No one survives through life without paying in one fashion or another.

adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and—let us hope—we remember how to change back. Ambassador Cammar Pilru, Dispatches in Defense of Ix

The ability to survive is the ability to face and overcome unexpected dangers. —Bene Gesserit axiom

Resistance to change is a survival characteristic. But in its extreme form, it is poisonous—and suicidal. —Zensunni stricture

The symbolism of a belief can survive far longer than the belief itself.

Machines are fully functional from the day of their programming." Erasmus sounded smug. "That explains a lot. For us, life is a gradual developmental process. Without nurturing, we can't survive," she said. "You have never been nurtured. I think you should make improvements to the way you raise the slave children in your pens. Show them more kindness, encourage their curiosity.

The wild desolation of the place whetted my interest in ecology. It's so much more interesting to study a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

To keep from dying is not the same as "to live." —Bene Gesserit Saying