Quotes About Survival

That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.

The brain works fast when it thinks it's about to be cut in half.

I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!

Why does everyone run toward a blood-curdling scream? mumbled the Senior Wrangler. It's contrary to all sense.

Mission motto, sir, said Carrot cheerfully. Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it. I imagine he did, said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind? Er... Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir.

He's going to arrest the Patrician, Vimes told himself, the thought trickling through his brain like an icy rivulet. He's actually going to arrest the Patrician. The supreme ruler. He's going to arrest him. This is what he's actually going to do. The boy doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. Oh, wouldn't it be a good idea if he knew the meaning of the word survival...

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

Captain Roberts went to Heaven, which wasn't everything that he'd expected, and as the receding water gently marooned the wreck of the Sweet Judy on the forest floor, only one soul was left alive. Or possibly two, if you like parrots.

There's always the dwarf bread.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

If anyone locked me in a dungeon, there'd be screams.

Nobby had survived any number of famous massacres by not being there.

He hated weapons, and not just because they'd so often been aimed at him. You got into more trouble if you had a weapon. People shot you instantly if they thought you were going to shoot them. But if you were unarmed, they often stopped to talk. Admittedly, they tended to say things like, You'll never guess what we're going to do to you, pal, but that took time. And Rincewind could do a lot with a few more seconds. He could use them to live longer in.

Bein' a soldier is not hard! If it was, soldiers would not be able to do it! There is only three things you need to remember, which are, viz: one obey orders two give it to the enemy good and hard three don't die.

As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.

What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry sabre-toothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying 'What a magnificent brute!' and 'Here, pussy.

there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre

Very senior librarians, however, once they have proved themselves worthy by performing some valiant act of librarianship, are accepted into a secret order and are taught the raw arts of survival beyond the Shelves

So the fire and its subsequent flood, wich destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors'problems, did not mark its end. Rather it was a fiery punctuation mark, a coal-like comma, or salamander semicolon, in a continuing story.

call it empathy. That means putting yourself in the place of the other person and seeing their point of view. I suppose it's because in the very olden days, when humans had to fight fir themselves every day, they needed to find people who would fight with them too, and together we lived—yes, and prospered. Humans need other humans—it's as simple as that.

He may be deaf and a little hard of thinking, but elderly wizards have very well-trained survival instincts, and they know that when a tall figure in a black robe and the latest in agricultural handtools starts looking thoughtfully at you it is time to act fast.

He felt as if he'd been shipwrecked on the Titanic but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.

The desert wasn't mappable. It ate map-makers.