Quotes About Survival

We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.

cost reductions meant survival, but not profitability

when people encounter a significant threat, a response called "threat rigidity" sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being flexible and to become "command and control" oriented—to focus everything on countering the threat in order to survive.

managers may think they control the flow of resources in their firms, in the end it is really customers and investors who dictate how money will be spent because companies with investment patterns that don't satisfy their customers and investors don't survive.

Few people have physically and emotionally survived more than one SAP implementation project.42

Survive everything. And do it with style.

Survive everything. And do it with style. ~ Cleo Coyle

He sat there thinking of Man's capacity for the wiping out of species--sometimes in hate or fear, at other times for the simple love of gain.

If you reach a crossroads and your destination is to the left and by mistake you turn right, the further you travel along the wrong road the further you will move away from your destination. It is not easy to turn back, to change your mind. Sometimes, you have to in order to survive.

She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

This is a forsaken place...I can think of no use for a place like this, except that you could say of it: I saw the heart of nothing, and survived.

when the sun goes out and there's only night, we'll live on the earth. It'll be ours.

This is the state of the beast,' it said, 'to eat and be eaten.

Are you ready for the apocalypse?

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

Zombies are the ideal late twentieth-century monsters. A zombie is the one thing you can't deal with. It survives anything. Frankenstein's monster and Dracula could be sent down in so many ways. Zombies, though, fall outside all this. You can't argue with them. They just keep coming at you.

But better to be buried in the rubble than succumb to the Mask. And be flattered, at the end, that Fate had at least offered her a choice of extinctions.

Let's prioritise here. At the risk of stating the obvious, this isn't going to be easy. We need to find Norma as fast as we can, avoid the powerful demon that wants me as his slave, and then get the fuck out of Hell. I'm sure we'll encounter some heinous, unthinkable, soul-scarring shit along the way, but hopefully we make it out alive.

Like a prisoner without hope of parole she took what entertainment she could find to ease the passage of time.

This is the state of the beast, it said, to eat and be eaten.

A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.

Joe had the distinct impression they were getting in deeper than they expected with each turn, almost as if they'd hooked a small fish that had been eaten by a larger fish and was being chased by a giant shark.

The truth is, bad things are going to happen somewhere, every single day, and today was just your turn.

Most people can't truly conceive of being in a place where death might be preferable to life. Life is strong. It grips you in many ways, from the beating of your heart, to the sun on your face, to the feel of the ground beneath your feet. It grasps you.