Quotes About Survival

Los animales- dice el Eslabón Perdido - son nuestra forma de definir a los humanos. Sin animales no habría humanidad.

Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture." And

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. Bob

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.

If you're not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead.

As if the only choice they have left is how they're going to die, and they want to die in a fight.

Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiated by the tentacles of woe?

Food for the native Ewoks.

Even if this thing takes down one percent of the global population—that's seventy million people.

The age of the insect, he thinks. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.

Hey, pal. You still know how to contact the other refugees? Roshyk, Hrrgn, Kirratha, and them?" Group of a half-dozen Wookiees who escaped Kessel and got away from the Empire when nobody else could. Group of the meanest, hairiest brutes.

Somehow, the disappearance of coffee feels worse than the disappearance of all humankind.

The Empire's weapon may be destroyed, but the Empire itself lives on.

America, burning. Cornfields on fire. Sickness in the streets. The people poisoned by their own food and by each other. Red parachutes in the sky: invasion. Dead people in the streets: plague. The stars-and-stripes cut to ribbons and burned for warmth as a long winter sinks its teeth in and never lets go.

what happens to the world when antibiotics fail us all? Everything from heart operations to getting a tattoo will go from being rote explorations of the human body to perilous trips like the first pioneers crossing the badlands . . . Once antibiotics go, everything goes. Maybe that won't be the first domino to fall. Maybe it'll be the one where we lose all the honeybees, or maybe it'll be when we lose all the ice caps, or, or, or—

Viruses wanted to live long enough to multiply and share themselves with the world.)

competitive exclusion (n) 1. a situation in which one species competes another into extinction.

the world's gone to hell, and we're driving through Satan's lower intestine

rough guess is that it killed ninety-nine percent of people.

Una nación puede sobrevivir a sus locos y hasta a sus ambiciosos, pero no puede sobrevivir a la traición intestina

A problem is a way of creating a future. When plants grow and evolve they do so by way of problems, developing features to avoid predators, to maximise light or to retain moisture.

It's a prison. It's twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can do, all day long, is look for ways to survive. Nobody needs to teach us tricks. We brainstorm our own tricks all day long. When real anorexics compare notes, we've already figured out all the same tricks—and each one of us did it on our own.

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.