Quotes About Surviving

Threatened men live long.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.

Living is more than surviving and scraping by as if one should be grateful to have a pulse.

Only the carelessly youthful and naive could have the gall to think that surviving is blessing enough

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

Out of this catastrophe, the only people to profit were the surviving peasants, whose labor was now in great demand. With fewer to farm the land, workers could charge more for their services, though rulers attempted to legislate against this.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

Rome's ancient ruling class was decimated, and surviving nobiles were scattered to all corners of the empire

The challenge of life, present for most of it but more dominant in the second half, is adjusting to loss or, more specifically, developing the judgment and grace not only to accept its inevitability but also to recognize that it's not the only trajectory, that there are many ways to meet and measure it and that there are consolations, including all that remains. Cherishing those leftovers—those holdovers—is the key to thriving, and sometimes even to surviving.

As an artist development platform, we've proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the rigors of the intense live shows, can properly prepare a winner for a real-world music career opportunity.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

What we see now is an attempt to destroy the last surviving communities: the family, the church, and the nation. This is one connection between liberalism and communist theory.

I'm not Nat. I'm Nat's Garbage Service. That is, I'm the only surviving member." "A music group?" "The music group," said the old man. "We got the Grammy in 1972. You wouldn't remember our big ones I guess. Flowers Growing In The Cracks and Fragmented Syntaptic Authenticated Hallucinogenic Anthrax?

The strongest man survives himself.

Suppose a branch of our old family tree—a branch that seemed doomed to wither—had in fact not died out but survived, survived by learning arts just as new to the world but utterly different from the tool-making and fire-building of its grosser cousins, us. Suppose that instead they had learned concealment, smallification, disappearance, and some way to blind the eyes of beholders.

And yet here there was tranquility, efficiency, a certain new-world courtesy and civility all their own. There were amazing facilities to study, unimaginable in India. The business of living was made easy, so you could get on with doing more than surviving.

Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving.

Salt was expensive, however, and so was used only with varieties of fish and meat that had demonstrated a capacity for surviving the preservation process in a reasonably appetizing state and were therefore regarded as "worth their salt.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.