Survival Quotes - page 23

'Falling Skies' is not just about aliens attacking. It's also about humanity, survival, hope and the determination to rebuild our world, starting from pretty much nothing. (Maxim Knight)
And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure. View quote
Maximilian Schell
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction. View quote
Nancy Pearcey
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century. View quote
Nathaniel Philbrick
Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity. View quote
Naveen Jain
People will do amazing things to ensure their survival. View quote
Patricia Briggs
I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives. View quote
Paul Engle
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites. View quote
Rachel Caine
Imagination is an instrument of survival. View quote
Rogier van der Heide
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival. View quote
Russel Honore
We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival. (Rusty Schweickart)
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. View quote
Raoul Vaneigem
Credibility is a basic survival tool. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty. View quote
Rebecca Solnit
It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
There's a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition. View quote
Tony La Russa
Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival. View quote
Ted Allen
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission, and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed to assimilate it, find meaning in it, and assure its survival for use by generations to come. View quote
Vartan Gregorian
We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League. View quote
Vincent Tan
I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival. (Wendy Raquel Robinson)
When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible. View quote
Yuichiro Miura
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was. View quote
Robin Green
Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive. View quote
Rachel Dolezal
Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces. View quote
Rachel Carson