Survival Quotes

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his...

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the la...

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Without world unification the species would destroy itself by the enlarged powers that had come to i...

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of ...

Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds—st...

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality on...

When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like ye...

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly alwa...

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza."Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the...

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave ma...

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brut...

Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning.

Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever...

The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two abso...

Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, ...

That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, f...

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don'...

I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon ...

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun...

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happine...

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination.

But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, h...

Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technolog...

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burde...

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is commu...

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be close...

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, a...

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My...

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. ...

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or...

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but i...

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security syst...

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration ev...

Success is survival.

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the g...

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's le...

I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we w...

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

... the burrowing wasp, which in order to provide a supply of fresh meat for her offspring after her...

Surviving Is the only warWe can afford

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: ...

Sauve qui peut. To survivewe’d all turn thiefand rascal, or so says the fox,with her coat of an eleg...

She’s a lean vixen: I can seethe ribs, the slytrickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation,...

Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for thei...

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar t...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do conf...

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this ven...

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impracti...

, And you, ye stars,Who slowly begin to marshal,As of old, the fields of heaven,Your distant, melanc...

Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not ...

My grandfather often felt frustrated or baffled by my grandmother's illness, but when it came to the...

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden term...

Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a ...

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up...

Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize...

Daddy," she says again, this time putting more of a needy whine into her voice. It is the thing that...

It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the th...

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrou...

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman ...

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longe...

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the wor...

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals ...

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and w...

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been pre...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

Achilles might be a good papa to the family, but he was also a killer, and he never forgives.Poke kn...

I was born with more power inside myself than I ever dreamed. But along with it there came no more s...

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only ro...

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who deci...

The history of the own that is grasped on too small a scale and the foreign that is treated too badl...

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was opt...

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with ...