Quotes about Survival

natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers.

He saw it. Not in front, or behind him, just somewhere out in the darkness. It was huge and powerful. The whiteness of its fur gleamed in the light of the snow. 'Wolf, in the name of the Polish border I beg you to spare my life,' he said into the darkness. The wolf stopped behind him, wondering.

To tell the truth, I like the concept of evil people who eliminated each other, in a chain.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Get on your feet or die.

loss of an economic basis is what, above all, fate means today.

The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.

Watching how the biblical writers looked at faith as trust rather than certainty helps us through our inevitable uh-oh moments from a different perspective. These moments are not proof that faith doesn't work, but only that a certain kind of faith doesn't work—one that needs correct thinking in order to survive (chapter 6).

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.