Survival quotes

“You know I am not a religious man, but I believe this: if there is a wound, we must try to heal it. If there is someone whose pain we can cure, we must search till we find them. If the gods have chosen that we should survive, it will be for a reason.”

Sir John Hurt - Dr. Iannis

Here are your books. Uh, "The Complete Idiots Guide to Surviving Divorce", "The Divorce Workbook" and, of course, "How Come nobody loves me?".

Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Janet Hall

“Why did God allow me to survive? Who knows? Well I must believe it was so I can help bring more children into the world. Free children, children with a chance to live.”

Christine Lahti - Gisella Perl

I tattooed "survive" on my hand the night before I went away to prison. And I did. We do what we have to do to survive.
Levan Uchaneishvili - Uncle Nikolai

“I'm really gonna have to kill someone down at the D.W.P. I figured the only way we're gonna pay the bills next month in this dump, is to just go ahead and start our own coven.”
Brenda Vaccaro - Bianca

“- Lindus: How did you get behind the enemy line?
- Capt. John Boyd: I froze. I was scared.
- Lindus: Scared? You froze while the rest of your unit fought and died? What did you do then?
- Capt. John Boyd: I played dead.”
Bill Brochtrup - Lindus
Guy Pearce - Capt. John Boyd

“- John Connor: What is your mission?
- Terminator: To... ensure the survival... of John Connor... and Katherine Brewster.
- John Connor: You are about to fail that mission.”
Nick Stahl - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator

“You see Hopper, Nature has a certain order. The ants pick the food, the ants keep the food, and the grasshoppers leave!”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Atta

“No hat, no stick, no pipe, not even a pocket handkerchief. How can one survive?”
Orson Bean - Bilbo

“- Gen. Midwinter: Did you know for example, that the air in the East Coast of America is polluted by the reds? Oh, you might look at me, but boy, I tell you and I know that the air in Texas is the only truly wholesome air in this world. That is why I have not been out of Texas in twenty five years. I don't like the air in other places.
- Harry...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Begley - Gen. Midwinter
Sir Michael Caine - Harry Palmer

“- Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon): Happy birthday for yesterday. I mean that, sincerely, happy birthday, man.
- Roger Murtaugh (Lethal Weapon): Thanks.
- Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon): Maybe we'll stay alive long enough for me to buy you a present.”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs
Danny Glover - Roger Murtaugh

- Panel member: If you were to meet these Vegans, and were permitted only one question to ask of them, what would it be?
- Ellie Arroway: Well, I suppose it would be, "How did you do it? How did you evolve, how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?".
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“- Willi Hilfe: We thought you'd been killed.
- Stephen Neale: Not quite.”
Carl Esmond - Willi Hilfe
Ray Milland - Stephen Neale

“- Dr. Bill Perlman: He and your wife are the only survivors I can't reach. She won't talk and he won't admit the crash was bad.
- Manny Rodrigo: Is that right? He says it was good?
- Dr. Bill Perlman: Says it was the best thing that ever happened to him.”

John Turturro - Dr. Bill Perlman
Benicio del Toro - Manny Rodrigo

“A fighting man must be vigilant to surprise attack no matter where he is. The survival of our nation depends on the readiness of Marines all over the world. Also more importantly, you only wiped yourself twice - grossly insufficient.”
Robert Duvall - Lt. Col. 'Bull' Meechum

“The females of the species are larger. All the animals here are like that. They have to be to survive.”
Val Kilmer - Col. John Henry Patterson

“I've learned a person can pretty much survive off of a goat. A goat gives you company, and milk, and cheese... and when you need it, good meat.”
Dame Eileen Atkins - Maddy

“Life will go on, we will prevail.”
Morgan Freeman - President Beck

“They won't catch us this time! Not this time! They haven't spotted us! No, they're all snoring in their bunks! Or, you know what? They're drinking at the bar, celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!”
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte

“Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it.”
Takeshi Kitano - Kitano-sensei

“- James T. Kirk: My God, Bones... what have I done?
- McCoy: What you had to do, what you always do. Turn death into a fighting chance to live.”

William Shatner - James T. Kirk
DeForest Kelley - McCoy

“Here we are at the edge of the world of human history. Things like this happen all the time in the jungle; it's survival of the fittest! In the jungle, it's the daily violence of the strong overcoming the weak!”
Carl Gabriel Yorke - Alan Yates

“- Anastasia: And to think that could have been you.
- Dimitri: If we live through this, remind me to thank you.”

Meg Ryan - Anastasia
John Cusack - Dimitri

“I'll survive, because wherever you go, I'll be sure to follow.”

Woody Harrelson - Lou the Lamb

“- Stephen Falken: I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath. We'll be spared the horror of survival.
- Jennifer: I'm only 17 years old. I'm not ready to die yet.”
John Wood - Falken
Ally Sheedy - Jennifer