George Zimmerman Quotes

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

My life has been a series of emergencies.

'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight into death, but now, as she lay against the pillar, she saw it differently. She thought she'd been surviving. She thought that she'd been fighting for herself. But all she'd done was create more killing, and in the end it had all led to this moment, where they bargained with a demon ... not for their lives, but for their souls

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

Survival feels like cowardice.

Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.

The only thing you want is to come back alive.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.

I'll say anything to live.

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

I don't feel any remorse or guilt after a fight. I can sympathise with an opponent who is getting a beating, but if it is the choice between him and me, it's not gonna be me.

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. "I tried to stop her.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.

Life is a crisis - so what!

You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.