Quotes About Survival

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.

Growing up in a very poor orphanage in Ukraine, there wasn't much food.

President Hindenburg had ultimate say over whether the government would survive or not.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.

The thing about Gambit is that he's a man who knows how to adapt to survive. He plays things by ear, depending on the situation, and never feels obligated to follow the rules, because the only rules that matter are his own sense of honor. Ultimately, that sense of honor includes 'doing no harm' - at least, not to the innocent.

Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.

Money is far more important to me than love because ultimately it lasts longer.

The human brain is a product of natural selection. In the face of scarcity, our hominid great-great-uncles were unable to compete against our sapient great-great-grandparents' abilities to build more elaborate mental models and orchestrate their bodies' movements in more sophisticated ways.

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.

The terrorists didn't think that Yazidi girls would have the courage to tell the world every detail of what they did to us. We defy them by not letting their crimes go unanswered.

I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

There's so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it's just unbearable. It's a fate that's just, I don't even know how to say it. I don't have words.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

It's truly unbelievable, the tenacity of life.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Place your army in deadly peril, and it will survive; plunge it into desperate straits, and it will come off in safety.

A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.