"Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most."

Survival, Hardship, Skill, Preparation

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"Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most."

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"I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Survival, Death, Choice, Hope

"A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Wolf, Rabbit, Predator

"I can't believe that we have reached the end of everything. The red dust is frightening. The carbon dioxide is real. Water is expensive. Bio-tech has created as many problems as it has fixed, but we're here, we're alive, we're the human race, we have survived wars and terrorism and scarcity and global famine, and we have made it back from the brink, not once but many times. History is not a suicide note - it's a record of our survival."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Survival, History, Humanity, Hope

"A whale has nowhere to hide in a river."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Hiding, Size, Environment

"A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Wolf, Danger, Teeth, Predator

"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Survival, Sanity, Struggle, Life

"She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Survival, Empathy, Kindness, Weakness

"There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Survival, Love, Respect, Truth, Happiness

"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Survival, Adaptation, Comparison, Wisdom

"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Survival, Evolution, Glory, Poor

Explore more quotes by Edward Abbey

"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."

Darkness

"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

Conservative

"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."

Heroism

"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

Government

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

Religion

"There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right."

Morality

"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."

Individualism

"How become a writer? Naturally."

Talent

"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."

Communication

"As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty."

Aging