An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don’t think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for...

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island–but that’s what...

I would close my eyes and dream of something strong, dream of horses exploding, rising into the air, their hearts beating survive, survive, survive.

Vehicular Darwinism based on survival of the quickest.

Whatever doesn’t destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don’t kill us.

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I...

Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist.

I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.And living is different with surviving.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly...

The survival rate of your passion depends on the kind of person that leads you!

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to...

It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.

Given the chance, would I go back? Back to the time when my parents were alive? When my biggest problem was a past-due paper? When I didn’t need to know how to take care of...

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it’s just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

Seeds strive to become plants by forcing their way through the soil. We can learn from this and push through the struggles we face in life. If they can survive, we can do much more....

It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.””As a girl, I am compelled to protect what’s left of my manicure,” Petra said.

In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.

People and birds were alike. Things happened that hurt them or made their lives harder. All the time. But losing someone or something important didn’t mean the end of everything. It meant you had to...

It wasn’t him speaking. It was panic, anger, fear, and confusion. But how could he show it on the outside? Men are supposed to be fearless.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

With the money my mother earned from selling cakes, my father cut a deal with Mangochi and bought one pail of maize. My mother took it to the mill, saved half the flour for us,...

Nobody should have to die like these people had. I didn’t know each of their circumstances, but I had a good guess. These people had died in terror, horror, and pain. More than likely, they...

Samuel, safety is my watchword. Rest assured that proper procedures will be followed at all times.”Skipper giggled. “Tell me, Mump. What ARE proper procedures exactly?””Simple,” said Mump. “One: cause maximum chaos in the shortest possible...

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It’s growing out of sour earth....

A year ago, we were struggling for survival. At least now, we can dream a little bigger.

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused “metaphysical” anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act.It was...

We are more than the worst thing that’s ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

You need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child. Don’t seperate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I’m so fucking proud of you.

Old dogs lives longer by learning new tricks

In the end, He’s the only reason that I made it. Sometimes that’s the only thing we have. Whether you call it God, or hope, or faith -whatever word you use- the fact is, I...

Life in the wild, as I’m observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

We are respecting our parents’ wishes….They didn’t want to shelter us from the world’s treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty– no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no...

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No ‘poof.’ No flash of light. No explosion.

Sasha’s green eyes were right up against yours, the lashes interlocking. “In Naples,” she said, “there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they’d been,...

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving ‘God-fearing’ man to honor the 8th commandment.

The past might hurt but don’t run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Don’t play his game. Play yours.

That’s what any committed patriot would do: Fight to the last. Defeat your enemy at any cost; then hope you have enough left to rebuild.

The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag.

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

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...