Top 32 Survivable Quotes
#1. Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
Irwin Redlener
#2. I'd rather be a complete mess with you than spend another day shattered all over the floor alone.
Tara Sivec
#3. Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.
James Frey
#4. In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is a todo madre, something which is 'wholly mother'.
John Hillaby
#5. He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.
Lee Child
#6. My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.
Michael Douglas
#7. Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.
T Jay Taylor
#8. Hillary Clinton, as awful as I find her, is a survivable event. I'm not so sure about [Donald] Trump.
Bret Stephens
#9. Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#10. I wondered what things what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable.
Robyn Schneider
#11. Many organizations have put off critical upgrades or new projects to make sure ICD-10 was survivable.
Dick Taylor
#12. The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed - but survivable.
Alain De Botton
#13. The same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.
Marianne Williamson
#15. There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.
Jill Stein
#16. Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.
Frank Bruni
#17. I wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. When
Robyn Schneider
#18. Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.
Lynda Williams
#19. I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
John Green
#20. When I started Shutterstock, I tried to get people access to big events. It's very hard to keep up, to publish them quick, and to get the right photographers.
Jon Oringer
#21. There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.
Anne Lamott
#22. I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.
Greg Gutfeld
#23. There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.
Josh Marshall
#25. It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.
Miyamoto Musashi
#26. To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Martial
#27. Change is neither good nor bad. It's just change. Frightening, but survivable.
Patricia Briggs
#29. Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.
Amanda Ripley
#30. Emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body that has, as a general purpose, making life more survivable by taking care of a danger, of taking care of an opportunity, either/or, or something in between.
Antonio Damasio
#31. You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.
Christine Feehan
#32. You end up hating so many people that without even noticing, you start to hate everyone. Including yourself. But that's the trick, you see? The trick that makes everything survivable. You've got to love somebody.
Patrick Ness
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