Quotes About Survival

You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

I believe the minorities need to have a strategy of survival because needless aggression when you cannot change the situation does not help. Wisdom is more important than saving some cultural symbol.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

Octopus slime is sort of a cross between drool and snot. But in a nice way. And it's very useful. It helps to be slippery if you're squeezing your body in and out of tight places. Slime keeps the octopus moist if it wants to emerge from the water, which some species of octopus do with surprisingly frequency in the wild.

His head was barely above water, and he'd never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.

The single non-negotiable thing life requires is water.

The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get along without us, but we can't get along without them.