When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‚I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,‘ and so forth, I switch off quite early.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Bring them on.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Going 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.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.