Quotes About Survival

You could be the fittest person imaginable in terms of strength, intelligence, disease resistance and vitality, but if you fail to reproduce your contribution to the future of the human gene pool is zero. For anything to evolve it has to affect the probability of passing on your genes.

The Germans dropped tens of thousands of tons of bombs on Stalingrad but most explosions contributed little more than reconfiguration of existing rubble.

Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM

bring in the big bucks or perish.

It's extremely difficult to kill a city! On

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

He had enough troubles, he thought, without inventing new ones for the future. He was middling lost, starving, and with an excellent chance of never returning to the house alive. Floods and earthquakes and plagues of locusts were rather unnecessary.

every time you lose, you die a little, inside. Not all your organs...maybe just your liver.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

If life, by some chance, happens to have originated, and survived, elsewhere in the universe, it will have had time to explore an unfathomable diversity of forms. Those best able to survive the passage of time, adapt to changing environments, and migrate across interstellar distances will become the most widespread. A life form that assumes digital representation, for all or part of its life cycle, will be able to travel at the speed of light.

The survival of the fittest is a slow method for measuring advantages," Turing argued in 1950. "The experimenter, by the exercise of intelligence, should be able to speed it up.

Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

It's nice to be here. When you're 99 years old, it's nice to be anywhere.

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.