Staying Alive Quotes - Page 6

• I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.

  Darren Shan

  Animal, Blood, Alive

  Darren Shan (2011). “The Vampire’s Assistant (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 2)”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He hasn't accepted his death. He is already fighting hard to stay alive. Which also means that kind Peeta Mellark, the boy who gave me bread, is fighting hard to kill me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Fighting, Boys

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

  Patrick Ness

  Heart, Leaving, Promise

  4 Copy quote

• We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.

  Charles Wright

  Giving, Important, Alive

  13 Copy quote

• You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one stay alive,I've found.What on earth is so bad about a stupid school saying no?" "My life"-I gasped-"is over.It's over. Everything." He frowned dubiously. "Who would want to go to a place called Georgetown, anyhow? Ridiculous. Now,I could understand your devastation if it had a distinguished name like, say, Jacktown, but as it is,you're overreacting. Why do you want to go to more school? I went once for a few hours and nearly lost my mind.

  Kiersten White

  Stupid, School, Eye

  4 Copy quote

• Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

  Rachel Caine

  Alive, Claire, Said

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Lord of Misrule: The Morganville Vampires”, p.16, Penguin

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

  Ian Fleming

  Alive, Want, Said

  Ian Fleming (2002). “Moonraker”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

  Robert Redford

  Alive, Want, Chance

  4 Copy quote

• I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

  Gunter Brus

  Struggle, Views, Alive

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You want to stay alive in a zombie swarm? You go alone or in a small group, where everyone is of similar physical condition and weapons training. You never stop, you never hesitate, and you never show any mercy for the people that would slow you down.That is what the military says we should do, and if I ever meet anybody who listens to that particular set of commands, I may shoot them myself just to improve the gene pool. When you can help people stay alive, you help them. We're all we've got.

  Mira Grant

  Military, People, Training

  4 Copy quote

• And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

  Matt Haig

  Book, Reading, Humanity

  Matt Haig (2015). “Reasons to Stay Alive”, p.100, Canongate Books

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.

  Ingrid Weir

  Health, Fighting, Alive

  4 Copy quote

• To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Insanity

  4 Copy quote

• To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Country, Alive

  4 Copy quote

• I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

  4 Copy quote

• Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart years after the events transpired. And no good comes from that. These ghosts don't need us to help them stay alive. If we're after real deal healing, these ghosts must desiccate.

  Joshua Mohr

  Real, Healing, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Ties, Alive

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  War, Soldier, Cost

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

  Anne Waldman

  Alive, Language, States

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Running, Selfish

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.

  Peter Lee

  Thinking, Alive, Care

  4 Copy quote

• A man stays alive as long as he is remembered.
  He is killed only by forgetfulness.

  Richard Basehart

  Men, Long, Alive

  5 Copy quote

• He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod.

  Neil Gaiman

  Home, Alive, Want

  5 Copy quote

• The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

  Montgomery Clift

  Sadness, Alive, Vulnerable

  15 Copy quote

• Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  People, Goes On, Alive

  "Mission: possible". Interview with Wallace Shawn, Interview Magazine, April 1997.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source