Top 100 Can Survive Quotes
#1. It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
Audre Lorde
#2. The body can survive while the soul dies.
John Shors
#3. I can't lose you. I can't survive it." "Yes, you can," he murmured, his fingertips touching her cheek. "You can survive anything. Loss can be like chains holding you in place or a fire pushing you onward. We each choose every day what it will be to us.
Annette Marie
#4. Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
John F. Kennedy
#5. Don't you see, Ren? That's exactly why I have to go. You need to know that you can survive without me. That's there's more to life than just me. You need to see this world that's opened up to you and know that you have choices. I refuse to be your cage- Kelsey, pg. 401
Colleen Houck
#6. 'The X Factor' was the final push I needed to have the presence and confidence on stage, which I didn't have before. It's a crash course in the music industry. If you can survive the show, you're ready for the industry.
Fleur East
#7. If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle anything around the world because you're able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned.
Nneka
#8. It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but poetry and songs.
Jim Morrison
#9. You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.
Ariel Dorfman
#10. People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.
Seth Klarman
#11. She wonders what else she will have to give up and what is the minimum of things with which one can survive without losing the feeling that one is human?
Slavenka Drakulic
#12. New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
Edward Abbey
#13. MADDIE: If I can find my own, I can survive on my own. I won't be dependent on anyone.
Ruby Dixon
#14. A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
#15. Pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
Robert Cormier
#16. If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?
Scott Adams
#17. Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#18. It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth.
L. Ron Hubbard
#20. One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.
Darmie Orem
#21. The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
Rachel Cusk
#22. All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer
#23. Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
Cullen Hightower
#25. If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.
Chuck Wepner
#26. A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
Eddi Reader
#27. You can survive only if nothing is necessary to you
Paul Auster
#28. Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.
Daniel Abraham
#29. our childhood is over now, Marshal. Mankind can survive very well without an intimate study of your susceptibilities but not, unfortunately, without your other functions and talents. Do you think I bring any child into the world to live for himself alone?
Dorothy Dunnett
#30. At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.
Harvey V. Fineberg
#31. If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.
Richard Koch
#32. Since all organisms vary, and all reproduce themselves in greater numbers than can survive, there must always be competition between variants; in other words, the principle of natural selection, too, is universally applicable.
Charles Darwin
#33. A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth - whether inside or outside a courtroom.
Dennis Prager
#34. All we are is proof that love can survive anything. You and I, we're heavy hitters, but even at our worst, we still couldn't break this bond. If you're honest with yourself, we didn't even come close.
R.K. Lilley
#35. What makes you think you can survive as a saint in this world, unless you make it your business to exploit the gullible and greedy?
Anand Neelakantan
#36. I sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive.
Jessica Sorensen
#37. Man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.
Heinz Kohut
#38. People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#39. Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.
Thomas Huxley
#40. I should have told you. I guess I ... wanted you to know. I wanted you to know what I needed, but maybe you couldn't understand that what I needed was you."
"Do you need me?"
"I can survive without you, but it's only that. Surviving. I want to live.
Kit Rocha
#41. If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you
Louis C.K.
#42. God alone knows what the conscience can survive, or how a man who has lost his honor will still try to save his soul.
G.K. Chesterton
#43. The only way we can survive is to work together. Each of us must play our part. The minute we stand alone, we fall alone.
Jo Cotterill
#44. My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.
Waris Dirie
#45. Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.
Patrick Stump
#46. You don't know me well enough to be confident that I wouldn't be able to live without you. I survived almost two decades of ignoring the fuck out of you, I can survive plenty more.
Christine Celis
#47. There's only so much a man can survive and as fucking weak as it sounds, I reached my limits when Skye disappeared. - Duke
Stephanie Witter
#48. We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild.
Sheryl Sandberg
#49. If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? ... Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
Ayn Rand
#50. All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
Josephine Hart
#51. If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the divisive issues that can rip the social fabric apart ... The courts are a safety valve without which no democratic society can survive.
Rose Bird
#53. I don't think the planet can survive people. It's not the other way around. I don't think the planet can survive.
Ray Price
#54. The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
Mark Shand
#55. If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
Calvin Klein
#56. The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
Kenzaburo Oe
#57. Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.
Glen Mazzara
#58. Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.
Tony Judt
#59. Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#60. A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#61. Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
Rachel Held Evans
#62. Either way, every multisided platform has to have a strategy for making the trek to the critical mass frontier from which they can survive and prosper.
David S. Evans
#63. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride.
Chinua Achebe
#64. If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.
Chuck Palahniuk
#66. What Nietzsche recognises is that you can get rid of God only if you also do away with innate meaning. The Almighty can survive tragedy, but not absurdity.
Terry Eagleton
#67. There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
Margaret Thatcher
#68. If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.
Jochen Zeitz
#69. San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#70. No. I can survive well enough on my own - if given the proper reading material.
Sarah J. Maas
#71. After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.
Jennifer Ehle
#72. Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.
George Lucas
#73. A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within ... for the traitor appears not to be a traitor ... he rots the soul of a nation ... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#74. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
#75. Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.
Sarah Manguso
#76. I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.
Keith Emerson
#77. I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#78. You can survive alone, or you can *live* together. I know which option William would chose - has chosen," he said, shaking me as if he wished he could shake some sense into me. "You have to make your choice.
Nicole Williams
#79. If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
Rajneesh
#80. Since homo sapiens can survive only by unrestrained racial killing, a Jewish triumph of reason over impulse would mean the end of the species. What a race needed, thought Hitler, was a "worldview" that permitted it to triumph, which meant, in the final analysis, "faith" in its own mindless mission.
Timothy Snyder
#81. A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.
Ursula Hegi
#82. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
Elizabeth Kostova
#83. Humans have given away all their power to a "they". You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive.
Jeanette Winterson
#84. You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes.
Ilana Glazer
#85. Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
Molly Ivins
#86. You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
Frederick Buechner
#88. Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.
Chinua Achebe
#89. She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen
Sondra Torres
#90. China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#91. I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
Dan Hill
#92. Triage on a battlefield (where the word originated in the Napoleonic Wars) came down to three choices: Those that don't need help right now, those that can survive if they get help right now and those that are probably going to die whether they get help or not.
John Ringo
#93. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
Michael Bassey
#96. I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.
Hillary Clinton
#97. I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
Michael Connelly
#98. The only way that I can survive such a fucked up reality is to act like everything on the outside no longer exists; and that includes feelings, especially feelings for a man." I
Jessica N. Watkins
#99. That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#100. If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.
Tracy Morgan
