Surviving Quotes - Page 9

• It's part of the business of really not caring about topping myself because I really don't care what's going to happen. I think just surviving is a major thing. I'd like to write something that my peers, my colleagues, my fellow writers would find a source of respect.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Caring, Thinking

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• For my mother, having a family was the most important thing in her life. In the Second World War, it was a challenge - surviving physically and mentally and finding somebody who you loved and who was willing to be with you.

  Etgar Keret

  Mother, War, Challenges

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

  Paul Bloom

  Teenage, Son, Media

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Even though I had a fantastic family, I always felt lonely - not lonely in the melancholic way but knowing that, to really survive, I have to do everything for myself. I had to work and study, and I was out in the street really surviving, bringing food back home.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Lonely, Home, Knowing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

  George Leonard

  Creativity, School, Age

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• As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

  John Carpenter

  People, Directors, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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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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• Life is not for the faint of heart.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Adoption, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

  John Flavel

  Dying, Use, Lord's Supper

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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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• Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

  Andy Grove

  Culture, Maintaining, Strategic

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• We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.

  Janet Macunovich

  Thinking, Growing, Plant

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• Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Opposites, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

  Jack London

  Strong, Predator, Killers

  Jack London (2008). “The Call of the Wild: Easyread Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• 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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• The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Age, Faust

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• In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

  Alberto Manguel

  Art, Writing, Hard Times

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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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• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.

  Robert I. Sutton

  Workplace, Building, Civilized

  "The No Asshole Rule". Book by Robert Sutton, February 22, 2007.

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