Quotes About Survives

#1. A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Alfred Kazin

#2. When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Austin Grossman

#3. The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

Joseph Rotblat

#4. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Camille Paglia

#5. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.

Esther Earl

#6. They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#7. Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

Josh Billings

#8. We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

Bernard Cornwell

#9. The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

Kris Kristofferson

#10. Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#11. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.

Gregory David Roberts

#12. If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.

Yoshida Shoin

#13. A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.

Alice Oswald

#14. But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Marisa Silver

#15. He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure - if he survives the experience.

Dorothy Dunnett

#16. He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Thomas Paine

#17. There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved either - there is simply nothing to save you "from" : you have not emerged from any "other" and there is no place else for "you" to disappear into. Ever.

Adi Da

#18. Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem ... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

Yasser Arafat

#19. Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

Deepak Chopra

#20. Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

Flannery O'Connor

#21. The steel cartel is dead; but the cartel idea survives.

George W. Stocking

#22. Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct ...

Joel Achenbach

#23. Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,
When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,
Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,
But never will be sung to us again,
Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest
Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#24. Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

Homer

#25. Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

Guy Davenport

#26. For Art alone is great:
The bust survives the state,
The crown the potentate.

Theophile Gautier

#27. Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.

Alex Steffen

#28. All students of disaster movies know that nothing survives these natural onslaughts except cats and the highest paid film stars.

Simon Jenkins

#29. There are no souls, Melba thought with a touch of pity. We are bags of meat with a little electricity running through them. No ghosts, no spirits, no souls. The only thing that survives is the story people tell about you.

James S.A. Corey

#30. The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

Claude C. Hopkins

#31. A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Octavio Paz

#32. In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

Alfred North Whitehead

#33. [S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power
to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

Ayn Rand

#34. It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

Eric Hobsbawm

#35. If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Louise Erdrich

#36. Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

Edmund Morgan

#37. A 'good man' is a male creature that survives the endless episodes that its woman spends complaining about women who she hates, and, women who hate her.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#38. Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

Anais Nin

#39. The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

M.H. Abrams

#40. The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

Simon R. Green

#41. Because Hope survives best at the Hearth.

Rick Riordan

#42. The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Anne Sexton

#43. It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

Georges St-Pierre

#44. The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Alfred De Vigny

#45. Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Bruce Lee

#46. For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Orhan Pamuk

#47. No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

Gregory Maguire

#48. A weed doesn't care if it is beautiful or not. It only cares that it survives.

Catherine Beery

#49. That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#50. The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

Norman Doidge

#51. It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Dorothy Thompson

#52. If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

Kurt Vonnegut

#53. You hope Raphael survives this?" Luke said."Come on- how many people has he killed?
Magnus turned cold eyes on him. "Who among us has bloodless hands? What did you do, Lucian Graymark, to gain yourself a pack- two packs- of werewolves?

Cassandra Clare

#54. Being a Junglepreneur is about the ability to build a business in any location and then ensure that it survives and thrives by all legal means.

David Oludotun Fasanya

#55. If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

Sven Birkerts

#56. In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.

Andy Lane

#57. No important relationship survives if trust is totally lost.

Paul Ekman

#58. The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?

Karen Marie Moning

#59. When Bon Jovi goes out on tour again, that's who I'm going to go see because some of it survives... while the rest becomes compost in the garden of rock 'n' roll.

Lonn Friend

#60. Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

E. M. Forster

#61. The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.

Justin Alcala

#62. Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.

William Gibson

#63. The Best moment in the TV, is when it come the break when the film stops and comes the advertises from which the program survives. This moment is the best..., WHY?
Because you can read a book, by turning of the sound of your TV!

Deyth Banger

#64. Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Michael Shermer

#65. Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

Charles Saatchi

#66. The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

Maya Angelou

#67. It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.

Charles Darwin

#68. Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau

#69. I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#70. The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

James G. Frazer

#71. Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

Robert Browning

#72. Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is the art that actually carries something that tells society about self.

Richard Tuttle

#73. A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

John Le Carre

#74. Her faith in you survives her,

Lauren Kate

#75. No plan survives the battle field.

Helmuth James Graf Von Moltke

#76. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

Eric Clapton

#77. You're the last Olympian," I said. "And the most important." "And why is that, Percy Jackson?" "Because Hope survives best at the hearth," I said.

Rick Riordan

#78. Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good ...

J.K. Rowling

#79. Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

Arthur Helps

#80. The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

Delmore Schwartz

#81. Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

Jonathan Sacks

#82. This implies that purification is a lifelong process, not something that is applied once and then forgotten. Purity of heart never survives a passive relationship. One must always guard his or her heart.

Hamza Yusuf

#83. Man is not a solitary animal, and so long as social Life survives, self-realization cannot be the supreme principle of ethics.

Bertrand Russell

#84. There are no supermoms. Eventually, you just have to hope your kid survives all your parental screw-ups.

Roxanne Snopek

#85. I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

Peter Jackson

#86. One gene may be regarded as a unit that survives through a large number of successive individual bodies.

Richard Dawkins

#87. I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.

David Richo

#88. The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact ... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

Henry David Thoreau

#89. Death discredits. Survival is the whole success. The voice of the dead goes away. There isn't any memory. The power that's established fills the earth and destiny is whatever survives, so whatever is is right.

Saul Bellow

#90. This is how the Tradition survives..Because people are willing to die for an idea

Paulo Coelho

#91. self-defense - since any society that's violent and stupid enough to self-destruct on H-bombs might easily destroy the entire universe if it survives long enough to invent something with real firepower.

Rob Reid

#92. Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#93. Wherever you turn you cannot live without internet, phones .. So I think the film industry will change, but I still believe that the TV will survive in the same way the cinema survives.

Tommy Wiseau

#94. The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

Henry David Thoreau

#95. There's no way back,
There is no track
That leads to his past lives.
He sets himself on forwards.
And he loves.
And he survives.

Kate Tempest

#96. No plan of battle survives first contact,

Robert Jordan

#97. Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#98. In 1970, a superior Court judge issues an order forcing the desegregation of Los Angeles schools. The judge survives an assassination attempt and loses his job in the next election.

James Frey

#99. Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Robert Winston

#100. I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.

Richard Branson