Quotes About Survival

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

War makes monsters out of men.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.