Surviving Quotes - Page 11

• Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.

  Joe Teti

  Mean, Fighting, Warrior

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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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• 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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• Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Looks, Stories

  Chris Cleave (2009). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Thinking, Understanding, Irony

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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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• You are not living, you are surviving.

  Michael Scott

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

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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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• He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

  Robert South

  Opportunity, Men, Names

  Robert South (1823). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.431

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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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• 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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• I mean, personally, I would have had no problem surviving. Come on, how hard is it to swim?

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Swim, Problem

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• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  Samuel Fuller

  War, Glory

  "Fictional character: Zab". "The Big Red One", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Responsibility, Space

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space".

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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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• 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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• I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

  Carrie Fisher

  Ashamed, Ill, Better Me

  "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com.

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• The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Party, Hero

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• My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

  Arlen Specter

  Winning, Squash, Definitions

  "Former Senator Arlen Specter Dies At 82". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 15, 2012.

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• The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

  Karl Abraham

  Dream, Race, Psychics

  Karl Abraham, Hilda C. Abraham (1979). “Clinical Papers and Essays on Psycho-analysis”, p.208, Karnac Books

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• When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Soccer

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• Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sex, Two, People

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• The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

  Howard Tayler

  Size, Paychecks, Likelihood

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