Quotes about Survival

However, we must run aground on some island.”

So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”

After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

The rest were to follow on planks and various parts of the ship. In this way everyone was brought safely to land.

When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.

They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.

He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that supports the survival of the fittest, with all of its dire complications. Byran was able to envision the kind of society that Social Darwinism would create- the kind of exploitation that comes from unbridled capitalism, for instance- and chose to war against it.

There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.