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Quotes About Survival

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
~ Alan Watts
I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
~ Carrie Fisher
My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.
~ John Kani
The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.
~ Reinhold Messner
When you are playing the longer version, there are times when you don't have to get bat on ball on a regular basis but maybe a good leave outside the off stump can play its part in you surviving and the time that you would like to spend on the crease.
~ Viv Richards
That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.
~ Giorgio Armani
People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.
~ John Scalzi
The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.
~ Meles Zenawi
Simply surviving in this business is a feat.
~ Lou Diamond Phillips
The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.
~ Harvey V. Fineberg
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
~ J. B. Smoove
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
~ Vik Muniz
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
~ Yasmine Al Masri
Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.
~ Ben Zobrist
I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.
~ Conrad Black
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
~ Oliver Joseph Lodge
We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.
~ Bruce Johnston
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
~ Manolo Blahnik
When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
~ Mika
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
~ M.I.A.
At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.
~ Lee Daniels