The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend...

Let’s be very clear about this, asshole: I’ve been a woman in Arkansas. I know damn well what it means when a man says to me ‘Calm down.’ Being raped comes next, and that’s a...

So now you know that, as dark as the depths of the sea may be, as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is not really true darkness. It’s just waiting for light...

Don’t just survive while waiting for someone’s revolution to clear your head.

True, t is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may not be his turn tomorrow? Who assures him employment, who vouches for it that, if for any reason or...

Tough times don’t last, tough people do, remember?

Kate stops grinding the knife and begins to pass it over the length of the stone. Turning her wrist, she pulls the blade, swiping one side after the other, honing it to a fine edge....

I can’t believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but...

Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding:The men would stay out of the sharks’ turf – the water – and the sharks would stay off of theirs –...

I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.

To return to nature is to embrace extinction.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to...

What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in...

I do care. That’s why I hunt them. But if you’ve seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the murders and disappearances. You learn to push it aside and move on. The...

Love shouldn’t feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.

It’s all in the reflexes.

Find what you love to do, what you’re good at and passionate about and then dedicate your entire life to working hard at it. I wil say it again. Work hard. I mean that. Even...

Mom stood over the still thrashing ghost with the bat and brought it down on its head again and again. “Leave him alone, leave my family alone!” she screamed. “We are not going to die...

Jesus, what a nuisance it was, being desperate to stay alive.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can’t move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been...

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors...

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

He pulled me back to him, stroking my hair as if to calm me. Tears sprang to my eyes and melted into the water around me. I didn’t want to die. But people died every...

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.

We fought back with our music; it was the only weapon we had.

Our humanity consists in the fact that we do more than survive, that a great part of what we do confers no survival benefit in terms presumably salient from the Pleistocene point of view.

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we’re going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don’t defeat death, they come to...

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

Prison is the only place, where Darwin’s Theory of Evolution may seem to work. Survival of the fittest does only work, where the fittest is defined as the most loving.

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

If quick, I survive.If not quick, I am lost.This is “death.

Told you. Breakfast of champions.”- Skylla and Jet

His red eyes swung in my direction. Without a second glance, he released the dead man’s body. It hit the ground with a loud thump, but I couldn’t bring myself to look at him. He...

when we will unmake this world in which we are battered between long burden and brief delight, and will live in pleasure for all our days.” The belief in the possibility of long-lasting, high-flown pleasures...

nobody would know your story unless you survive❤ ❤

The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.

Maybe. I don’t call it nobility, though. I think it’s our innate human need to champion the underdog. We are constant optimists. We’re the emotional descendents of the caveman who stood defiant in the front...

My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the...

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

An old dog lives longer when it learns new tricks

That’s the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

Eight months in the woods have hardened me, or at least firmed up my beliefs that if a man’s going to fend for himself, then he needs to leave his credit card at home.

Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most,...

Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes...

In the morning she found pieces of a birdchopped and scattered by the fanblood sprayed onto the mosquito net,its body leaving paths on the wallslike red snails that drifted down in lumps.She could imagine the...

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you’d like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.