Archilochus Quotes

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

I made a cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile struggle.

The first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

During the climb, I never get afraid. But you can't lose your fear - it is really important. If you lose it, you are going to die.

It's always scarier saying 'No.' As an actress, I can say 'Yes' to more. But sometimes, as a stunt-woman, I have to say 'No.'

I don't go to scary movies because they scare me. But I can be in them because I know whether I'm living or dying.

If a man puts a lion's family in jeopardy, what would it do? Would it enjoy fighting? Of course it wouldn't, but it's going to fight.

I'm not really a fighter, but I've never backed down from anyone in Paris. I feel I can't. In London, I'll just run because I'm not going to fight 50 Wolverhampton Wanderers fans.

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

Every fight is a fight for my life. And I step in the ring and make sure that I fight with that on the back of my mind.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.