I spent most of my life believing lwas crazy because all the crazy things I experienced in childhood were treated as nonexistent or normal. This belief colored every decision made, from something so basic as...

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn’t any choice.

I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in...

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.”(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that’s to find meaning in the suffer.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

Why is it that people talk about death, as if it is a part of life, when it is entirely separate? Someone passes on into the never ending void, where the living aren’t allowed. We...

I yanked hard on the reins, and my horse’s hooves slid on the linoleum as he skidded to a stop, nervously snorting and tossing his head at the cramped quarters he’d suddenly found himself in....

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I’ll fight.

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

It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Money is key to survival. Love is key to happiness.

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man’s future welfare...

Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.

Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes,...

Look now,’ Vesna’s mother continued, ‘what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. how can you...

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I’m a part of the island. The swarthiness of my face hidden behind the...

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very...

War makes animals of men, and we can’t let that happen to us. If we do, we won’t have any chance of survival.

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature’s production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in...

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Art is inextricably tied to man’s survival – not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they’re asked.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.

Adventures are only interesting once you’ve lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting...

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.

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

The bright blue sky remained cloudless, and the aquamarine ocean still crashed gently onto the white sand beach, but the scene was suddenly warped. Twisted, as I processed Thad’s words.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Use your strength, but always remember that any strengthmay become a weakness.

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The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

When you’ve crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious.

Listen up, Nic,” she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. “If you die on me out here, so help me I’ll hold seances and pester you. I won’t give you a moment’s peace...

Willpower survives.

In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent...

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no...

You may be operating from the belief that you must do everything yourself because no one will ever be there for you. Or you may think that if you never speak up you’ll avoid being...

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

If God’s love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God’s plan kick...

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

For those that dare to stand upagainst those that want to knock you down.” The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out – Book 2.

It’s only life. We all get through it.

They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but...