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From battle and murder, and from sudden death.
- Anonymous
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
- Anonymous
After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
- Dolly Parton
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
- John Barrymore
Oh, God, I can't hope for anything. I can't. I won't survive if I do.
- Francine Rivers
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
- Frank Herbert
Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.
- Frank Herbert
Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.
- Frank Herbert
From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal population, and profoundly sensitive to the density of numbers within a given habitat. Our adaptations aim to increase the population tolerance, to permit a human density ten to twelve times greater than is currently considered possible. Out of this, we will get our survival variations.
- Frank Herbert
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.
- Frank Herbert
The Fremen must be brave to live at the edge of that desert. By all accounts. They compose poems to their knives.
- Frank Herbert
Love leads to misery. Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. Remember that woman's mistake, the pain.
- Frank Herbert