Quotes About Surviving

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

In their reveries, they had all been superheroes. But recently, Don had begun to question that, They had been anything but heroic. More like feral, frightened animals - jacked up on adrenaline, hash, and uppers - getting by on firepower, cunning and ruthlessness. Killing without thought, surviving. Making mistakes, sometimes pushing much too far.

The key to surviving and thriving in leadership often rests in increasing our self-awareness.

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

Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.

You should be dead, he said, his voice full of wonder. How is it that you're still alive? Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. I work hard at it.

would destroy the planet or save it? In its recognition of her, Ghost Bird knew that something would survive, that she would survive.

Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away.

I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library. "Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.

Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.

Over the years I had devised an elaborate syllabus of coping techniques for spending time with Nick.

I prefer the word thriver, because I'm not just surviving, I'm thriving

How comforting to witness a fictional person (who is also, miraculously, ourselves as we read) suffering the same agonies of a saccharine dismissal and, importantly, surviving.

Two surviving human beings on the entire planet, Ruslan thought, and they can't stand each other. A fitting metaphor for the entire species.

Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.

In life, one must (first) last. ("Dans la vie, il faut [d'abord] durer.")

But the guilt of outliving those you love is justly to be borne, she thought. Outliving is something we do to them. The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Surviving is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.

Nevertheless, some surviving evidence indicates that Constantine himself was originally devoted to Apollo, supported by the fact that the god Sol Invictus continued to show up on the reverse types of Constantinian coinage until the mid-320s

Evolution is arranged so that a species survives, not so that it will be happy while it survives.

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

the more they evolved from monsters into angsty, sexy superheroes, the more the odds of a human being surviving an encounter with an angry vampire shrank to nothing.

And you did all of this before I awakened?' 'Not all of us can afford to be layabouts ... You upper class types are all the same. Sleep until noon and then fritter your nights away.' She narrowed her eyes. 'I do not fritter my nights away.' 'Really? And what do you do at night?' 'I go to social events. Parties or galas. Sometimes a musicale. Or a charity event,' she tacked on with satisfaction. 'Well, I must retract my frittering comment in that case.' 'It's not frittering. It's surviving.