Quotes About Survival

Historical events never have simple or obvious implications. Some people thrived by using the very instruments intended to dispossess them.

A man without human contact is a man without aid, without hope, without life.

Nos proporciona un intenso placer conseguir explicar algo con éxito, al igual que cuando Newton explicó las leyes del movimiento planetario de Kepler, junto con otras muchas cosas. Las teorías y los métodos científicos que sobreviven son aquellos que proporcionan esa satisfacción, encajen o no con ningún modelo preexistente sobre cómo habría que practicar la ciencia.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

if the Net is so crucial, what happens if the Net goes down? It may have to go down a few times before we learn how to defend it properly, before we catch on that civilization depends on it for survival.

The scale of forces, this time, is planetary; the scope is centuries; the stakes are what we call civilization; and it is all taking place at the headlong speed of self-accelerating human technologies and climatic turbulence. Talk of "saving the planet" is overstated, however. Earth will be fine, no matter what; so will life. It is humans who are in trouble. But since we got ourselves into this fix, we should be able to get ourselves out of it.

Humans perpetually fight, LeBlanc says, because they always outstrip the carrying capacity of their natural environment and then have to fight over resources.

But all of that civilized sophistication could collapse if carrying capacities everywhere are lowered by severe climate change. Humanity would revert to its norm of constant battles for diminishing resources. Peace lovers would be killed and eaten by war lovers.

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die.

Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us...

His laughter was the result of euphoria at finding himself alive and above ground.

You were part of something, and miraculously, you survived that part.

Instinctively, he reached for his knife, fumbled fro fractions of a second with the thong of a purse, tore it loose. He stabbed frantically at the thing that surrounded him, tore the blade through cloth and hair and flesh. One part fell away, a languid, dead flailing of limbs and hair. The other gripped him, and even though he had stabbed a limb, would not release him.

Tayven was not only alive, but had returned in some manner to the life he had known. He was not like Taropat, hidden away. The sketchy picture drawn by the scant words Shad had heard that night did not resemble the portrait Taropat had painted of the beautiful serene mystic. Dangerous? Better? What happened to Tayven after Khaster had fled? How had he survived?

Whatever my jaded heart feels, my instinctive desire to survive is much stronger.

If the Pelleth got hold of Shem, they might well eat him alive.

What significance could the mythical conflict of angels have to people who daily had to fight for their lives?

She will survive with awareness, and there is no greater penance.

You may run from life, Tayven, but it is hunting you, and it will find you.