Top 100 Quotes About Surviving
#1. Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.
Lionel Richie
#2. Life is not all about surviving it is all about living.
Me
#3. Said his name was Alex. And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy. Said he'd been surviving on edible plants he identified from the book. Like he was real proud of it.
Jon Krakauer
#4. The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you'd ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#5. I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.
Natalia Tena
#6. The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.
Susan Cain
#7. A lot of life is just surviving what happens.
Deb Caletti
#8. The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
#9. For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
Kate Walsh
#10. Seizing God's vision means deciding that you will not spend another day surviving your work environment, family dynamic, or dysfunctional situation.
Steven Furtick
#11. Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope of escaping it, I reasoned, was to know my own strength, to defy life by surviving it.
Lucy Grealy
#12. Are you kidding me? How can you even ask me that? I'm stuck in a world I have no hope of surviving, I'm forced to depend on a guy who thinks I can't be trusted, I'm being pushed into marrying a man who believes I can't talk, and I've lost everyone I've ever cared about! Why wouldn't I feel uneasy?
Cheryl Koevoet
#13. 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
#14. [ ... ]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#15. College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow
#16. Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle;
you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. He had no illusions about surviving the battle, or any real conscious thought about the battle at all. Logic and rational thought had been shed like a killer's false smile, and all that remained was death.
Cedric Nye
#18. Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
J. B. Smoove
#20. You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.
Anne Bishop
#21. PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.
Markus Persson
#22. The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#23. Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
Jarvis Cocker
#24. Natural, organic and unrefined foods speak a language your genes understand. And when your food communicates nicely with your genes, they'll express themselves properly and healthily so you can begin feeling that you're actually living and not just surviving.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#25. Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.
Johan Cruijff
#26. I didn't really want to die; I just wasn't ready to live. I was merely surviving ... one reluctant heartbeat at a time.
Wendi Cassel
#27. Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.
Margaret Mitchell
#28. Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.
Richard Pinhas
#29. In his new will, Typhon had named Phyllis as his only surviving relative & called her his wife.And he thus bequeathed to Phyllis everything he owned, including his flesh, bones & offals. And thus the terrible Typhon had married Phyllis without telling her.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#30. Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen."
I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
Neal Shusterman
#31. When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.
Molly O'Keefe
#32. Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
Simon Van Booy
#33. When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#34. 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
#35. The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on being a hero, saving lives and surviving last, but it has nothing to do with dignity, serenity.
M.F. Moonzajer
#37. Is this some sort of test?"
"Everything that doesn't kill you is."
"Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.
Michelle Sagara West
#38. Life is not just about surviving, it's about finding fulfillment.
Sharon Law Tucker
#39. Under the damage, he could still see Kitten, surviving despite it all.
C.J. Roberts
#40. Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.
James Patterson
#41. You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Michael Johnson
#43. We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.
Dorothy Rowe
#44. Surviving one's own life, living on the other side of it like a spectator, is quite comfortable after all. You no longer expect anything, no longer fear anything, and every hour is like a memory.
Simone De Beauvoir
#45. Surviving isn't just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking what ever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving out your life with the pieces you're given.
Roshani Chokshi
#46. Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom Stoppard
#47. [Ezekiel 1:1a] Hebrew On the fifth day of the fourth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of dates in Ezekiel can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This event occurred on July 31, 593 B.C.
Anonymous
#48. How are you feeling?' I asked. 'Fine,' he replied with a tired smile. 'Well done!' I replied, as I think patients need to be congratulated for their surviving just as much as the surgeons should be congratulated for doing their job well. 'It's
Henry Marsh
#49. Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
Richard Dawkins
#50. But that's just the way it was surviving in America's public schools. Every day was a struggle. Every day was psychological warfare, and if you didn't stay sharp, the system would grind you into human pencil shavings.
Jonathan LaPoma
#51. There is no fix for this. She has to endure it, and somewhere along the line she has to learn to live again. Surviving isn't the goal. Living is. This is a battle between me and her grief, and I'm going to be the last man standing.
Anne Calhoun
#52. Democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time. Most people's daily lives are just about surviving. Most people don't have time to really study [crucial] issues.
Brad Pitt
#53. There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
Ahmet Ertegun
#54. Thriving. That's fighting ... Surviving is barely getting by.
Jillian Michaels
#55. The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
Claire Cameron
#56. Surviving is much more painful than death.
Tom Clancy
#57. When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
Mika.
#58. The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.
Stephen Jay Gould
#59. Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
Bear Grylls
#60. Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.
Nicholas Sparks
#61. Everything in life tries to hit us hard. We feel like dying. But instead fight back hard to survive. After all surviving was the only aim of everything." - Vishnu Kanchan
Vishnu Kanchan
#62. Zander says you are." "Zander also maintains that Betty White isn't the only surviving member of The Golden Girls and that a reunion is still possible if someone could just uncover the conspiracy,
Lily Harper Hart
#63. We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#64. I never imagined being undead would be so much work," Jeff lamented.
"Being a 'vampire' takes no work at all," Timothy emphasized vampire. "It's surviving that takes all the work.
Ben Tousey
#65. He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#66. My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
Arlen Specter
#67. I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.
Marcia Wallace
#68. Awareness is the key to surviving on a motorcycle. Always be aware of your surroundings, and actively scan your surroundings at all times.
John Stein
#69. Surviving what you were never meant to survive creates a hard rock of happiness under the bones of the chest.
Ammi Keller
#70. I'm surviving on caffeine and a cold heart
Kay Whitley
#72. The slaughter of Oxford's dogs and cats had been well intentioned, but the result had been an explosion in the town's population of rats, with few surviving predators to keep them down,
Ann Swinfen
#73. People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.
John Scalzi
#74. Difficult times never last.
Patient to preserve is a peaceful altitude for surviving the stormy waters.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.
Howard Tayler
#76. the key to surviving change: embracing it, however cumbersomely, or gracefully, one can.
J.A. Redmerski
#77. He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.
Robert South
#79. Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles,
Dave Winer
#80. Yet still holding strong,
I keep on striving,
To be a better man, because
I'm still surviving.
Nanon M. Williams
#81. The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving.
Marianne Curley
#83. A living philosophy entails a conscious act of awareness. Without a living philosophy to guide and support us, we are not living as receptive, thinking, and emotionally responsive human beings; we are merely surviving as people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#84. Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is successful in combat and who has the best opportunity for surviving battle and coming home.
Robert S. Johnson
#85. 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
#86. So here's to the girls on the go- Everybody tries Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know: Everybody dies. A toast to that invincible bunch - The dinosaurs surviving the crunch - Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch - Everybody rise!
Stephen Sondheim
#87. Surviving in the township is like swimming in the ocean one mistake you drown
Thabiso Monkoe
#88. The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
Hugh Massingberd
#89. This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
Tilda Swinton
#90. He liked that bones were solid things, surviving even the white heat of cremation. Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable.
Kim Edwards
#91. After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization.
Meles Zenawi
#92. ... kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
Aimee Bender
#93. The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
Bertrand Russell
#94. Our Heart is Related with the Nature, Our Thoughts for Surviving
Jan Jansen
#96. Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.
Debby Ryan
#97. Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.
Joe Teti
#98. From the confusion in his expression, she sensed it was a hopeless question. He did not know. Years of hate and obsession had twisted and poisoned him, had wrung from him every surviving drop of humanity.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#99. Sometimes the hardest part is telling the world you've been dying silently on the inside every day, and only surviving by smiling and faking it.
H.J. Bellus
#100. For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
