#survival

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 a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#marriage #support #survival #test #marriage

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#resolution #survival #victory #inspirational

I might be small and afraid, I might be sad and embarrassed, I might have cried once or twice; but I am not weak. Until I give up, I am strong. And if there is one thing I can promise, I will never give up. ↗

— Céline

#strength #struggle #survival #inspirational

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system. ↗

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

#also #baby #baby boomers #boomers #country

I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound. ↗

— Tim Kreider

#survival #experience

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #give #like #philosophy #rather

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#condition #ethnic #group #independence #necessary

Survival is running from death. Our whole life is running from death, but we all just meet it while we are running from it! what a failure is this try! ↗

— Fereidoon Yazdi

#life #survival #death

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#get #inconvenient #leave #less #long

Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#war #warriors #home