Surviving Quotes - Page 8

• Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase a shiny object down a well was dead, and out of the gene pool. Now they got the technology and medicine to save the fool so he can breed more open mouth breathers.

  Lenny Bruce

  Kids, Technology, Years

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.

  W. G. Sebald

  Memories, Despair, Littles

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• I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

  Meredith Brooks

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

  James Henry Breasted

  Long, Doubt, Michigan

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• I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

  Francesco Clemente

  Thinking, Needs, Firsts

  "New Again: Francesco Clemente". Interview with Edit deAk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.

  Ai Weiwei

  Games, Cities, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

  Joan Rivers

  Revenge, Survival, Matter

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

  Jane Rule

  Way, Conventions, Usefulness

  Jane Rule (2013). “Desert of the Heart: A Novel”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Greatness, Men

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• You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

  Edna Buchanan

  Family, Brain, Trying

  Edna Buchanan (2014). “Act of Betrayal: A Britt Montero Mystery - Book Four”, p.193, Diversion Books

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• But part of surviving is being able to move on.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Moving, Able

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

  William C. Kirby

  Successful, Government, Political

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• I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

  Conrad Black

  Proud, Prison

  "Conrad Black tells Sky's "Adam Boulton: 'Stop being a jackass'" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2012.

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• If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Venice, Museums

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect.

  George Steele

  Tired, Punishment, Next Day

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also don’t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour it’s like there’s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or you’d be crushed under the weight of it.

  Courtney Summers

  Mean, Kissing, Secret

  Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.223, Macmillan

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• Surviving, that's my plan.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Plans

  Song: Surviving, Album: Phobia

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• It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

  Theodore Bikel

  Queens, Lasts, Members

  "EXCLUSIVE: Theodore Bikel Reminisces on The African Queen" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight into death, but now, as she lay against the pillar, she saw it differently. She thought she'd been surviving. She thought that she'd been fighting for herself. But all she'd done was create more killing, and in the end it had all led to this moment, where they bargained with a demon ... not for their lives, but for their souls

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Stupid, Fighting, Doctors

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• Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

  Richard Pinhas

  Giving Up, Liberty, Musician

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• Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.

  Veronica Chambers

  Letting Go, Stars, Loss

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• It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.

  Nick Bostrom

  Powerful, Technology, Years

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• The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

  George W. Bush

  War, Progress, Cold

  George W. Bush's commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2002.

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• Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

  Brendan Behan

  Suicide, Determination, Men

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• Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Want, Ifs

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