Surviving Quotes - Page 11

• If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

  Steven Weber

  Lying, Bully, Merit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Heaven, Body

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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• I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Character, Always Trying, Yesterday

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• Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

  Kate Morton

  Hate, Soul, Littles

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  War, Reading, Winning

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.

  Michelle Sagara

  Mean, Mind, Tests

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• The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving.

  Marianne Curley

  Running, Technology, Thinking

  Marianne Curley (2009). “Old Magic”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Animal, Fossils, Found

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• You are not living, you are surviving.

  Michael Scott

  Michael Scott (2010). “The Necromancer”, p.131, Random House

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• Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy. How little chance we would stand of surviving another rebellion. Whatever words they use, the real message is clear. “Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Real, Kids

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

  James Frey

  Wall, Heart, Eye

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.262, Anchor

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• What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

  Allen Ginsberg

  Suicide, Hero, Addiction

  Allen Ginsberg (1972). “The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971: Pocket Poets Number 30”, p.33, City Lights Books

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• We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

  Jared Diamond

  War, Musical, Majority

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• I've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Felt

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• So what if they were in Tartarus? So what if they stood a slim chance of surviving? He was so glad that they were together, he had the ridiculous urge to smile.

  Rick Riordan

  What If, Together, Slim

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• Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Forever, Soul

  "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus".

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• The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

  Hugh Massingberd

  Love, Life, Family

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• In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave only a few people on earth-whole cities surviving under domes because we have depleted our natural resources. And often in these movies, for reasons that I question, we have space aliens who are always blowing up Washington, D.C., and the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Years, Cities

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• No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

  Art Spiegelman

  Matter, Accomplish, Auschwitz

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• I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Odds, People, Impossible

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• Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

  C. Z. Guest

  Style, Looks, Easy

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• 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.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Thinking, Church, Battle

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• I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

  Natalia Tena

  Thinking, Choices, Acting

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• Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Slim, Chance

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