If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
Abraham MaslowTo eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul SartrePeople are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.
Anthony BourdainWe all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.
Frank OceanPlayers who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.
Jurgen KloppIf I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Henry KissingerIf you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon MuskFirst, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
Barack ObamaLife is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack LondonIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinGoing to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
John MuirNo untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.
Steven WrightI hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.
Anthony BourdainI wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.
Stephen HawkingOnly by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Brian TracyAfter climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson MandelaThese times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.
EminemSometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve JobsWhat the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.
Alan WattsNo man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas CarlyleI fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles SpurgeonLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaKeeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen HawkingWhen I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.
Robert KiyosakiGoing to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.
Anthony BourdainIt took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
Dolly PartonSo in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
John SteinbeckIf I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.
Anthony BourdainOptimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.
Ronald ReaganI started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Nelson MandelaI can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.
Michelle ObamaOur pleasures were simple – they included survival.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWithout education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
Nelson MandelaI was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.
Mr. TAcorns were good until bread was found.
Francis BaconThe major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas AdamsWe’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Anthony HopkinsMany entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.
Robert KiyosakiThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleLife is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody AllenI’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.
George BestEating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston ChurchillEvery morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray BradburyI want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar WildeAbout the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert HooverI love food.
Amy WinehouseDo not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert EinsteinI have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.
John MuirIf you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai LamaMan seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.
John MuirIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
Noam ChomskyWe’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.
Stephen CurryI don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.
Anthony BourdainIf there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Noam ChomskyI was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey HepburnI’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.
Vivienne WestwoodWe shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston ChurchillI went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron JamesI’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
Lady Gaga