Staying Alive Quotes - Page 6

• The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Enemy, Alive, Sake

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Frank Cameron, Don Dombowsky (2008). “Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology”, Palgrave MacMillan

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Richelle Mead

  Worry, Alive, Firsts

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.225, Penguin

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• 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

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• 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

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• I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicidal, Mean, Trying

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

  Albert Einstein

  Cat, Rainy Day, Men

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• If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

  Thomas Jane

  Challenges, Alive, Challenging Myself

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• 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

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• I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

  Eamon Dunphy

  Baby, Memorable, Years

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• The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and if they publish it, maybe no one will read it. That is the hard truth, that is what it means to be a writer.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Writing, Heart, Mean

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Men, Thinking

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

  Richard Basehart

  Men, Long, Alive

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• They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

  Russel Honore

  Stay Positive, Survival, Alive

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• Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.

  Robert Jordan

  Thinking, Alive, Want

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.403, Macmillan

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• What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.

  Lillian Vernon

  Business, Games, Challenges

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• Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

  Mark Nepo

  Feelings, Tragedy, Done

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.183, Conari Press

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• Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

  Richard Wollheim

  Growing Up, Alive, Way

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• I'm OK. Much better than on other occasions. It's true that I've made lots of mistakes but I've never tried to bother anyone. I want to stay alive, preferably in peace, without seeing every one of my mistakes in the papers, and on many occasions, even stories that are lies.

  George Best

  Mistake, Lying, Deceit

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