Surviving Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions and traumatic events that come with being alive.

  Gregory Orr

  Spiritual, Believe, Emotional

  "The Making of Poems" by Gregory Orr, www.npr.org. February 20, 2006.

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• The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

  Chris Hedges

  Lonely, Memories, Home

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• At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Jobs, Small Numbers, Cities

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Suffering, Modern

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2010). “Eating Animals”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

  Ogden Nash

  Mean, Survival, World

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• I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Joy, Survival, Edges

  Stanley Kunitz (1986). “A Celebration for Stanley Kunitz: on his eightieth birthday”, Sheep Meadow Pr

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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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• The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

  Peter Ellyard

  Future, Design, Challenges

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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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• 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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• 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, that's my plan.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Plans

  Song: Surviving, Album: Phobia

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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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• One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

  Pat Oliphant

  Years, People, Doe

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

  Chad Kroeger

  Horse, Successful, Dark

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• I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

  Billy Joel

  Fighting, Age, Noble

  Song: Prelude, Album: Turnstiles, 1976

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• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  Kate Walsh

  Coffee, House, Waiting

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

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• The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Progress, Expansion

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Humanity

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• To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to ‘endure it well,’ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must ‘endure in faith.’ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure ‘valiantly.’ (D&C 121:29.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Thinking, Enduring To The End, Important

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• As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.

  Charles Darwin

  Strong, Struggle, Principles

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.9, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

  Chester Himes

  Children, Integrity, Land

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• 42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those jobs just in time to start dying instead. Don't be one of those people. There's a difference between living, and just surviving. Do something that you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It really is that simple. And that hard.

  John Connolly

  Jobs, Simple, Differences

  John Connolly (2011). “The Infernals: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• So here's to the girls on the go
  Everybody tries.
  Look into their eyes,
  And you'll see what they know:
  Everybody dies.
  A toast to that invincible bunch,
  The dinosaurs surviving the crunch.
  Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch
  Everybody rise!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Girl, Eye, Lunch

  "The Ladies Who Lunch". Song by David C. Rakowski, Stephen Sondheim, 1988.

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