#survival

We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #optimism #survival #humor

I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#living #sun #survival #change

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

— Nadair Desmar

#life #survival #love

For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn't the training, nor the pain of seeing friends die, nor the will to win that made the men fight, but their will to survive that made them soldiers. ↗

— Magus Guidan

#survival #war #men

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#fantasy #imagination #life #survival #death

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival." "So... your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass. ↗

— Iain Banks

#changer #death #dorolow #mess-room #religion

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#am #damn #democracy #freedom #give

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today. ↗

— Molly Ringle

#life #philosophy-of-life #survival #death

White Man, let us stand together to secure the survival of your people and my people, for they are one and the same - they are our beloved, miraculous, wonderful, blessed and masterful white race! ↗

— George Lincoln Rockwell

#blessed #let us #man #masterful #miraculous

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#creative #entrepreneurship #exactly #nobody #nurtures