Quotes About Survival

You're supposed to take the man that has the best chance of survival.

James Patterson

I could barely move my left arm, and it hurt like fire. I tried to stretch out my wing, only to suck my breath in hard as I found out it had been hit too. I couldn't see it well over my shoulder, but my big clue was the screaming pain. I was scraped all over, had lost my windbreaker, and, if I wasn't mistaken, I was sitting in a patch of poison ivy.

I had survived the plagues of Africa, bullets and near death on the killing field. I'd survived the blade at my neck, only to lose my life to a virus inside a clean German clinic. I

clamp its jaws on the Black Hawk's landing gear and drag it underwater.

I'm lucky I didn't die, huh? That is seriously bottom-of-the-barrel luck Or else it's the best kind of luck there is

For dinner, we had a mix of radiation rat, charred chipmunk, and nuclear squirrel. It was absolutely disgusting. And absolutely delicious. "This is just like the old days," I reminisced, tearing into the gamey flesh.

Fang pondered. It always amazes me how he's able to seem so calm at the absolute worst times. Sometimes he seems like a droid—or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.

They cut her and cooked her and ate her up.

Call me selfish, but I want to keep as much of my blood as I possibly can, for as long as I can.

Her skin bore vicious weals and scars.

a madman's line of fire.

and, now, The Perfect Storm, life on The Lost had always been extremely

because after Jacobi and I got shot on Larkin

keep your head down, try to blend in, and don't get on anyone's bad side. You've already seen what I look like, so you can probably guess which one I chose. As soon as I got to homeroom, I went straight for the back row and sat as far from the teacher's desk as possible. There was just one problem with that plan, and his name was Miller. Miller

I guess they just wanted to scoop a bunch of people up, hoping they got me, and unfortunately they did.

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.

I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

I went into acting because I had to make a good living. I had a child now and I had to support him any way I could... I wasn't happy, but I wasn't unhappy. I was just doing what I had to do to survive.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.