Quotes About Survival

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

It ain't no secret No secret my friend You can get killed just for living In your American skin

Stay hard, Stay hungry, Stay alive!

We could survive as musicians only on our little sliver of the East Coast. We had to get back.

but they'd have a cheap laptop and some big chunk of the Library, and they'd crouch under a culvert with it, and peck around on it and fly around in it and read stuff and annotate it and hypertext it, and then they'd come up with some pathetic, shattered, crank, loony, paranoid theory as to what the hell had happened to them and their planet…. It almost beat drugs for turning smart people into human wreckage.

You could tell that the plant life here wasn't at all used to the kindness of rain. The plants weren't a bit better than humanity, really—just another ugly, nasty, acquisitive species, born to suffer, and expecting little.

There is a certain threshold, an intensity of sin and cynicism, beyond which no society can survive.…

We're so intelligent now that we're too smart to survive. We're so well informed that we lost all sense of meaning. We know the price of everything, but we've lost all sense of value. We have everyone under surveillance, but we've lost all sense of shame.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. -Bono

Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing, Does murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about, In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing, And tell how little our large veins should bleed, Would we but yield them to they bitter need.

But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.

I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

I've often told people who ask if there is a God: "Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things that they do, and you'll become a believer!

Human biochemistry works at its best at around 98 degrees F, and while adaptation to living in and visiting different environments is possible, from the Mojave to the moon, adaptation to altered body core temperatures is not possible.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Throughout his 720-page book Three Years of Arctic Service, Greely's

Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, would

Of the nearly two hundred men who had parted ways with Francisco Orellana's group, only eighty made it back to Quito. They had traveled, mostly on foot, more than two thousand miles, and literally everything they had started the expedition with—200 horses, 2,000 to 3,000 swine, 2,000 dogs, and more than 4,000 native bearers—was gone, dead and gone, along with the 120 of their companions who had perished en route.

Sometimes, insanity is not a tragedy. Sometimes, it's a strategy for survival. Sometimes ... it's a triumph.

Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trick--that makes us grow.

Not everything that's broken is destroyed, even the universe exists only after splitting to pieces

In man, breathing is incessantly going on—one breath only serving for two or three pulsations; so that whatever other business he has to attend to, waking or sleeping, breathe he must, or die he will. But the Sperm Whale only breathes about one seventh or Sunday of his time.