Allison Pearson Quotes

I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog.

I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

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

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.

There will always be survivors.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.

In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.

In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

Never admit defeat and ask for a quick death! Die first, then admit defeat! If you are defeated but didn't die, it just means you were lucky! At those times, think only about survival! Survive and think only about killing the one who failed to kill you!

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.