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Quotes About Survive

I predict a bad end for your race, humans,' Zoltan Chivay said grimly. 'Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group, helping one another. But you, humans, you just wait for a chance to make money from other people's mishaps.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.
~ Mauro Ranallo
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
~ Jim Valvano
Even for those who do survive, tumours can affect the functions of the brain and therefore affect a person's personality, preventing many people from working, driving and otherwise leading a normal life.
~ Sheila Hancock
At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
~ Robert Fulghum
My trouble seems [. . .] to be to bring together in me the Puritanical iron hand of constraint and the gushes of pure wildness. One can't survive or write without both but they need to come to terms.
~ Robert Lowell
it was nearly dawn, and the hill was white with snow. She was covered with a thick blanket of bees, and the snow lay upon them in bright broken spangles. She sat up in distress— bees cannot survive hard cold outside their hives— but they seemed to shake themselves...
~ Robin McKinley
I was going. I couldn't stay here. Every breath of its stale air, every square inch of the place mocked me, grabbed at my ankles. It needed blood to survive and it wasn't going to get mine.
~ Roddy Doyle
But this experience taught me that our civilization cannot survive if we continue to appease the Islamists.
~ Roger Scruton
Since railroads were natural monopolies and couldn't survive much direct competition, they could be easily threatened by small competitors
~ Ron Chernow
we can but stand aside, and let them Rush upon their Fate! There is scarcely anything of yours, upon which it is so dangerous to Rush, as your Fate. You may Rush upon your Potato-beds, or your Strawberry-beds, without doing much harm: you may even Rush upon your Balcony (unless it is a new house, built by contract, and with no clerk of the works) and may survive the foolhardy enterprise: but if you once Rush upon your FATE--why, you must take the consequences!
~ Lewis Carroll
The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
~ Justin Simien
This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.
~ Fidel Castro
Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.
~ Carlos Castaneda
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
~ Albert Einstein
Resilience is a measure of a system's ability to survive and persist within a variable environment. The opposite of resilience is brittleness or rigidity.
~ Donella H. Meadows
If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. And if this does not add up to a philosophy it certainly adds up to an attitude: shallow, unlikely to survive any sustained onslaught, but easy enough to adopt.
~ Douglas Murray
When I did 'E.T. ' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
~ Drew Barrymore
The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.
~ Gregg Braden
No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.
~ Clinton Rossiter
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life
~ Norman Vincent Peale