Quotes About Survival

The Quraysh collected the totems of the tribes that belonged to their confederacy and installed them in the Haram so that the tribesmen could only worship their patronal deities when they visited Mecca. The sanctity of the Kabah was thus essential to the success and survival of the Quraysh, and their competitors understood this.

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

The bed was lumpy, the fire smoked so badly I was forced to extinguish it or die, then I froze to death the rest f the night because the blanket was so thin. That's a shame. It was right comfortable in the tack room. I've a cot and a neat little pot-bellied stove. Dougal sent a thoughful look at the barn. Can you put up another cot?

I wish I could tell you that I leapt to my feet anyway, snake be dammed. Or that I wrestled the snake and then fought my opponent. But I saw the icy cold disdain in the snake's eyes and did the only prudent thing I could - I froze in my place. After a long few moments, the grew bored and slithered away, as had my opponent. Yet I felt that I had won, for I lived to fight another day.

big-box stores and outlet malls, and then you add e-sales on top of that—" Kat grimaced. "Small businesses get outpriced fast.

Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.

Hansel and Gretel

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that…and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.

You can run, he said. But you'll only die tired.-Boba Fett

You can run," he said. "But you'll only die tired.

Investigate, record, understand. Intelligence saves your life sooner or later. "Commander

Maybe after you survived the Sarlacc, nothing ever really scared you again.

Stop, Drop, and Roll won't work in Hell.

No matter what happened to you, no matter what horrors you endured when you were taken away, you will always be my pretty little girl.

Maybe that's why Claire had perfected the art of invisibility. It was a form of self-preservation. You couldn't resent what you could not see. She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language that she could not understand. There was nothing timorous about her, but you got the feeling that she always had one foot out the door. If the situation got too hard, or too intense, she would simply disappear.

When you're drowning, you don't stop to teach somebody else how to swim.

Do you realize how terrifying it is to be raped?

She had seen this before. She knew that you could put it all in a little box and close it up later, that you could go on with your life if you didn't sleep too much, didn't breathe too much, didn't live too much so that death came back and snatched you away for the taking.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways , it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive....Or not, in some cases.... ....Sounds a lot like being shot in the head.

You didn't help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive." He waved his hand in the air. "Or not, in some cases.

Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.

You are the reason I am alive. I would've never made it without you. Do you understand me? You are my heart. You are every ounce of blood in my body.