Top 100 Quotes About Survives
#1. Evolution is arranged so that a species survives, not so that it will be happy while it survives.
Albert Ellis
#2. Because wars you can do, and famines you can do and floods are relatively easy, but no one survives when the cook scratches his arse and then decides not to bother washing his hands.
Anne Enright
#3. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
George R R Martin
#4. She kills her words, but somehow the feeling survives. And no matter where she buries them, he always sees them in her eyes.
Seekerohan
#5. Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.
Peter S. Prescott
#6. Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#7. Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
Will Durant
#8. Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.
Gloria Naylor
#9. Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
Nicholas Sparks
#10. Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd
Please daily, and whose novelty survives
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.
William Cowper
#12. From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.
Louis Kronenberger
#13. the language he used survives in the law, that we were savages living off the forest, and to leave our land to us was to leave it useless wilderness, that our character and religion is of so inferior a stamp that the superior genius of Europe must certainly claim ascendancy and on and on. I
Louise Erdrich
#14. Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
Roger Scruton
#16. All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
Oscar Wilde
#17. He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
Chanakya
#18. A crafter's vision never completely survives the journey from mind to reality.
Tag Cavello
#19. Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.
Aravind Adiga
#20. Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence.
S.A. Tawks
#21. No relationship, Chrissy, I don't care how truly, madly, deeply it is ... No relationship survives on hope. It's forgiveness that keeps it alive.
Chrissy Anderson
#23. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem to wear so badly.
George Orwell
#24. When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
Paul Gauguin
#25. Nothing survives that hasn't been lovingly scarred in the brain or dented by the human voice.
Rodney Jones
#26. And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities.
Harry J. Holzer
#27. But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.
Marc Jacobs
#28. Way my mama used to tell me, a girl what lusts after a man falls prey to the forces of darkness. The rougarou ain't just a wolfman but a punishment sent by God to ravage a girl in the night, and if she survives she becomes one herself.
Samuel Snoek-Brown
#29. If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.
John Shelton Reed
#30. Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good
Dmitry Pisarev
#31. I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.
Bret Stephens
#32. A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.
African Spir
#33. For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper, flows on south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.
W. H. Auden
#34. Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#35. Love survives in a bubble. It diffuses outer reality and reflects only what the heart wants to see.
Shona Patel
#37. Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.
Courtney Love
#38. Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds
a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
Albert Camus
#39. If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
Pope Benedict XVI
#40. Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.
Rene Dubos
#42. Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.
Stephen King
#43. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
John C. Danforth
#44. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#45. If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'
Arthur C. Clarke
#46. She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people.
Dorothy Simpson
#47. The foolish rush to end their lives.
Only the steadfast soul survives.
Christine De Pizan
#48. Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#51. But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.
Peter Heather
#53. A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
Michael Lewis
#54. No man's religion ever survives his morals.
Robert South
#55. Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.
Anodea Judith
#56. The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose.
Francis Thompson
#58. A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, without knowing if anything of the being, whose name it was, survives in these pages.
Marcel Proust
#60. Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
Victor Hugo
#61. Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.
Leo Tolstoy
#62. There are two wolves battling inside of you, one is fear and one is love. The wolf that survives depends on which one you decide to feed.
Jaden Wilkes
#63. A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.
Varlam Shalamov
#64. If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of the twentieth century.
Barbara Kingsolver
#65. They say no plan survives first contact with implementation. I'd have to agree.
Andy Weir
#66. It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
#67. The old dictum is that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire
Don Winslow
#68. ENGINEERS and programmers have an old saying that Eric's father liked to quote: no design survives an encounter with reality. His mother preferred the military version: no plan survives contact with the enemy.
D.A. Hill
#69. No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives
AB De Villiers
#70. The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
A. Whitney Brown
#71. Have you ever wondered whether there could be a different, more positive script in which the one who feels well survives?
Vadim Zeland
#72. Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying.
Maxine Kumin
#74. Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something ...
Thomas A. Edison
#75. True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.
Arthur Lynch
#76. An organism is not an inert lump of matter, but a dynamic system: it survives by taking in new matter, extracting energy from it, and then expelling it. Matter flows through an organism like water through a fountain, only slower.
Eric T. Olson
#77. This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it ...
If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.
Arthur Tofte
#78. The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical ... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. Surviving a loss and letting go is only half of the story. The other half is the secret belief that we will find, in one form or another, what we have lost. And it is that potential, shimmery as a star on a clear night that helps us survives.
Veronica Chambers
#80. You are not lost. It's just that your own thoughts are being kept from you, or hidden away. But the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed
your self. You must believe in your own powers.
Haruki Murakami
#81. The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#82. Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
Ernst Junger
#83. It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.
Katie Ashley
#84. To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.
Willie Stargell
#85. Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.
Dave Pelzer
#86. Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
Ayn Rand
#87. When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.
Leslie Cockburn
#88. If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.
Henri Nouwen
#89. My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Robert Kiyosaki
#91. I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.
Gerard De Nerval
#92. We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.
Russell Banks
#94. Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.
Arnold Bennett
#95. Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.
Umberto Eco
#96. Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#97. A novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.
Elizabeth Bowen
#98. Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.
Sarah Manguso
#99. The fittest animal survives the jungle.
The weakest animal dies even if protected.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. ...One lives and survives only if one has the ability to swallow and digest bitter and unpalatable things. We, you and I, and our people shall live because there are only a few among us who do not love raw onions.
Jamil Ahmad
