Surviving Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!

  Dave Lindorff

  Country, Children, War

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• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  Ray Bradbury

  Horse, Moving, Book

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• The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Police, Onions, Fields

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

  Samuel Davies

  Waiting, Library, Nonsense

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• The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

  Paul MacCready

  Intelligent, Technology, Earth

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• For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

  Nelson Goodman

  Science, Simplicity, Trying

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• Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.

  Joumana Haddad

  Perseverance, Determination, War

  Joumana Haddad (2011). “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman”, p.62, Chicago Review Press

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• In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly, no arrogantly, believing I could put Canada and its picayune problems behind me, never dreaming it would become the raw material of most of my fiction and non-fiction. Or that I would care so deeply about its surviving intact.

  Mordecai Richler

  Dream, Believe, College

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• The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Taken, Hero

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Gay, Gauges

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• Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

  James Clavell

  Art, Experts, Inmates

  "James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1994.

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• Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it’s your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?

  Jillian Michaels

  Dream, Self, People

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• Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

  Paul Nitze

  War, Japan, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

  Cullen Murphy

  Numbers, Next, Language

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• The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses: our knowledge consists, at every moment, of those hypotheses which have shown their (comparative) fitness by surviving so far in their struggle for existence, a competitive struggle which eliminates those hypotheses which are unfit.

  Karl Popper

  Struggle, Knowledge, Science

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• Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

  Daniel Dennett

  Lasts, Mystery, Consciousness

  "Consciousness Explained". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1991.

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• Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is successful in combat and who has the best opportunity for surviving battle and coming home.

  Robert S. Johnson

  Home, Fighting, Successful

  Robert S. Johnson, Martin Caidin “Thunderbolt! The Extraordinary Story of a World War II Ace”, Lulu.com

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• I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

  Marcia Wallace

  Cancer, People, Oncologists

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• She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her grey eyes flickered. Despite being beat-up, sooty, and dressed like a homeless person, she looked great to Percy. 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

  Eye, Light, Hair

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• Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

  Marina Warner

  Romance, Greek, Erotic

  Marina Warner (2015). “L'Atalante”, p.16, Palgrave Macmillan

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• You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Unorthodox

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• Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

  Lionel Richie

  Years, Forget, Enough

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• The city is going to survive, we are going to get through it, It's going to be very, very difficult time. I don't think we yet know the pain that we're going to feel when we find out who we lost, but the thing we have to focus on now is getting this city through this, and surviving and being stronger for it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Pain, Thinking, Cities

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