Quotes About Survival

It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.

I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.

The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

Man is a bad animal.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.