Survival Rule Quotes

#1. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Toba Beta

#2. He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.

Margaret Atwood

#3. The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.

Joan Rivers

#4. The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and they lived by killing
animals as a rule, men if necessary.

Wallace Stegner

#5. Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#6. I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.

Katie Kacvinsky

#7. When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

Daniel Webster

#8. A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule.

Philip K. Dick

#9. Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

Jan Peacock

#10. The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

Gary Paulsen

#11. So far I've only read a page but I like that page a lot.

Geoff Dyer

#12. Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.

Philip Yancey

#13. That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

James Clavell

#14. Rule #17: To rescue a princess from magical imprisonment, a handsome prince must first slay the dragon. If one is not available, a large iguana will do in a pinch."
- Definitive Fairy-Tale Survival Guide, Volume 1

Betsy Schow

#15. Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

Kelley Armstrong

#16. You have the grace for happy life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan

#18. I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

Michael Lewis

#19. Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

Jeff Bingaman

#20. Let me love you. Don't make me wait.

Nicola Rendell

#21. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Albert Einstein

#22. The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

Alvin Toffler

#23. Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Stieg Larsson