Quotes About Survival

Katwe has no street signs. No addresses. It is a maze of rutted alleys and dilapidated shacks. It is a place where time is measured by where your shadow hits the ground. There are no clocks. No calendars. Because it lies just a few degrees from the equator, Katwe has no seasons, which adds to the repetitive, almost listless, nature of daily life. Every day is just like the next. Survival in Katwe depends on courage and determination as well as guile and luck.

The most exciting holidays are the ones where not everybody is going to make it.

Armageddon reigns, and survival on this planet gets down to brass tacks, the last three left standing will be cockroaches, viruses and probate attorneys. Fade to black, check please.

Oh, I'm not worried," said Serge. "I'm cookin'! I love hurricane season!

Technology has just passed our survival instinct, and the country is spinning on a stationary existential axis of make-believe importance: We text about a Tweet of a YouTube video posted on Facebook with a clip of Glee about not texting that we just texted about. Instead of actual life, we're now living an air-guitar version of life.

There's always a way out.

And here's how I rationalize my rationalizing. God gave us the ability to rationalize so we can stomach all the horrible things we're required to do every day just to survive the concrete jungle.

Brains are notoriously selfish organs. They give themselves priority access to everything they require—from blood-flow to warmth, nutrients and oxygen. During times of bodily stress, our brains will shut down one organ after another, even to the point of damaging them—before depriving themselves. Brains are also greedy. They make up just 2 per cent of our body weight, yet take 20 per cent of the energy we use.

When you're in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you've cheated death - and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.

In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

Freedom means everything to me. It is the most essential right that every person deserves. Most people take it for granted, but not North Koreans.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

My mom had an encounter with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 years old in North Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.

In North Korea, when there is an alarm, it means that there is a war drill. It means that you need to run.

If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate.

Why would North Korea people care if they have nukes or not? All they want is food. They want freedom.

There's nothing I did wrong. I was just born in North Korea, and that was my crime.

Living in China, I found out that the bright new world was not for me, not for defectors. My life in North Korea had been OK; suddenly, in China, I had to feed myself and earn money. Worst of all, North Korean defectors are hunted by the government.

The North Korean government are out to get me.

I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.

Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'

Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.

I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.