Quotes about Survival
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
— Charles Stanley
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
— CS Lewis
Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.
— Mark Vonnegut
Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
ugly, jagged scar that ran from the corner of his eye to his hairline just above his ear. He was glad he had it. A lifelong reminder of that awful day thirteen years ago and this treacherous cavern. He'd grown up fast. A breeze coming down across the
— Mary Connealy
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.
— Graham Greene
For every struggle that Joe survived, For every dispute he endured, to rise, Joe will go down in history as a model for champions to come. While Frazier was a man of few words, Ali was a world of mouth, but he found his place in history. Now his heart can express him well. Joe Frazier was a silent warrior, whom Ali silently admired. One could not rise without the other.
— Muhammad Ali
He who hits and runs away, lives to fight another day.
— Muhammad Ali
People who have been starved of water for a long time will drink anything, even if it is polluted.
— NT Wright
My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid of. Gangsters, extremist political groups Right and Left tossing bombs into restaurants, hijacks, holdups, a city plumb on the line of an earthquake fault. We have long had a compact, with ourselves, with life; life is dangerous. We live with that; in the one certainty that fear is the real killer.
— Nadine Gordimer
what it really was like to live a life determined by the struggle to be free, as desert dwellers' days are determined by the struggle against thirst and those of dwellers amid snow and ice by the struggle against the numbing of cold.
— Nadine Gordimer