Surviving Quotes - Page 12

• 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 think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Intelligent, Thinking

  Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

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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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• 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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• I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

  Barry Eisler

  Earth, Daring, Kill Me

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• Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Journey, Long, Shells

  "Late Night 'Thank You Notes' From Jimmy Fallon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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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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• Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

  Leonard Maltin

  United States, Palaces, Los Angeles

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• Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Book, Reflection

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• I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

  Russell Means

  People, Age, Earth

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• I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, People, Lessons

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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• The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.

  Carl Sagan

  Morning, Sunset, Moon

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• Please come to me, Cat, because there's no surviving you. You don't have to love me back. You don't have to be mine. Just let me be yours.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cat, Let Me, Please

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.305, St. Martin's Press

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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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• 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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• It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

  Richard Branson

  Divorce, Hard Work, People

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, People, House

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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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• 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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• Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

  James Patterson

  Congratulations, Taken, Reading

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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

  Art Spiegelman

  Matter, Accomplish, Auschwitz

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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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• 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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