Quotes About Survival

Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.

With Bill Clinton, his lawyers always wanted him to say nothing about the Lewinsky scandal. Defendant Clinton had the right to remain silent. But President Clinton had a completely different need - political survival. That meant, in the end, that he needed to trumpet his supposed innocence and talk publicly to the American people.

I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.

I got robbed once. A man pulled a gun on me and snatched my pocketbook in a car. I don't trust men that much any more.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

That's you. Callie, you're the only person that's ever made me feel happy about anything. That night you saved me, you changed something in me—you made me want to live.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

Okay, listen to me, you're stronger than they are. You are. They just want a good show, that's all they want. You know how to hunt. Show them how good you are.

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

The only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry your body.

I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.