Bob Greene Quotes

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die.

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

Here is no choice but either do or die.

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

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

In desperate position, you must fight.

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I'll say anything to live.

People ate all their beasts of burden, and the Caliph had only three horses left. Next they set on their dogs and cats. Finally…people began to eat human flesh…Men stood on their terraces and caught passersby using hooks on the end of ropes.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

Desperate situations always lead to desperate acts.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

Rats desert a sinking ship.

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.