Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings;...

Their survival instincts are on high alert.

I was somewhere between angry and turned-on.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

One might say that there is an “ethics barrier ” a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.

We have survived the death of our childhood. We are soldiers now, maybe the last soldiers who will ever fight, the Earth’s final and only hope, united as one in the spirit of vengeance.

I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)

Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive.

What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

If your friend really cared about you he wouldn’t let you take such risks.

what you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care.

It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the...

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

In an infinite Universe anything can happen,” said Ford, “Even survival. Strange but true.

Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. “You still have it. That gives me faith.” “Faith in what?””God, I suppose. No, I don’t know. Survival.

Shad ignored my sudden lack of interest. “Stop overanalyzing and be happy. You should try the Shad lifestyle, Miss Winters. It’s more panda bear and less porcupine.””Huh?””More black and white and cuddly, and less, well…...

Lina couldn’t sleep at first, thinking of the old songs and what they meant. Someone, long ago, had hoped that at least a few people would survive and had wanted them to remember her city...

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…

What do you call yourself?” the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!”I wish I knew!” thought poor Alice. She answered, rather sadly, “Nothing, just now.””Think again,” it said: “that won’t...

Love is a luxury. It’s something that people are allowed to indulge in when they’re not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

Freedom is a subset of survival.

It’s odd to suddenly discover you’re happy right in the middle of a moment. Usually, you don’t recognize happiness until it’s over and you’re looking back on it.

When the tears were gone I washed my face and walked back to the store to finish my shopping. Because even when your heart is breaking you still need bread and Rice Krispies and orange...

I have scars. No one alive today doesn’t. But Alex’s scars have to be much deeper than mine.

The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It’s what humans and cockroaches are best at.

Part of the forces that sent Sam trudging across the white prairies was love of life, a gladness for health and youth that filled him as Mozart’s gayest music filled him; and part of it...

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

I have leveled with the girls – from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt’s the living together afterward that’s tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It’s an...

front person” for the system.

There are some certain things in life we know it for sure but we need to hear it from others .. !

Surviving is one thing,” he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, “but you’ve got to have a reason to do it. There’s no point in living if you don’t have anything worth living for.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it’s cherished.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

We’ll know we’ve got it right when they choose for themselves,” he used to say. That doesn’t make sense. ‘That’s what I thought too. I asked him what he meant, but he just shrugged. I...

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

You die.” Thad’s voice was heavy; the fire was gone. “It’s like everyone has a personal window of time that the gateway to Nil stays open for them. It’s always one year. Exactly three hundred...

They’re both a bit cavalier about the whole thing at first; more than anything, they seem to think that it’s going to be a lot of fun. Which it is, of course, but mostly in...

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My wager is that Klein is right about that, even as she thwarts her own insight by insisting that it is...

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma’s essential insult....

What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn’t I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body,...

Survival requires guts and instinct.

It was a matter of survival.

Fight back, Laia. For Darin. For Izzi. For every Scholar this beast has abused. Fight. A scream bursts from me, and I claw at Marcus’s face, but a punch to my stomach takes the wind...

It is during a time of failure we bury a past and resurrect a future. Becoming righteous, discerning, and wise are our most prized possessions and across every cultures-this is the greatest feat of all...

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...