Survival Quotes - Page 40

Dude, that was a knuckle buster brother.

What you don't want to do is dig around here like a groundhog on crack.

If you choose to get off the beaten path here, you'll find yourself in a situation where everything looks the same.

Different groups in different areas developed different traits to assure their survival.

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

My fans are a huge superpower for me and my survival.

Survival first, then heartbreak.

He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years, such as English, but there are other languages whose survival is not so sure, such as Catalan, especially if they don't have a state that protects them. Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and Andorra. There are about ten million people who understand it and eight and a half who can speak it. But its future is much less certain than, for example, Danish or Slovenian or Latvian, because they have a state.

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

Survival is a growth strategy.

"Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

Deeds survive the doers.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

For me, dance is a nutrient, you know, it's something that I need, it's something like, you know, the air we breath, the food we eat. These are things that we need for survival. For me, dance is a nutrient. It's my nourishment.