Quotes About Survival

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Without argument the species would parish.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

Art of course survives on the walls of private dwellings and corporate offices, but it 'dies' in the sense of losing its public, community-gathering, world-historical significance.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others' ideas to be realized.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

The truth echoed in her head. On the same day she met him, he had tried to kill her. Her mate.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

Thus, whatever the medical student has been taught, and even genuinely believes, about the ideals of medicine, the primacy of empathy, the value of the doctor-patient relationship--all of this is swamped once he or she steps into the wards. [...] It's no wonder that empathy gets trounced in the actual world of clinical medicine; everything that empathy requires seems to detract from daily survival.