Top 23 Urban Survival Quotes
#1. In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
Jane Smiley
#2. Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.
Kevin Keck
#3. Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
Kate Winslet
#4. He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.
Margaret Atwood
#5. The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.
David Hockney
#6. Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner
#7. Do what you did in the beginning of a relationship and there won't be an end.
Tony Robbins
#8. I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people ... twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#9. Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.
Carole Katchen
#10. I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.
Martina Navratilova
#11. Although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.
Mira Grant
#12. The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.
Gerhard
#14. It feels good; my mind is going in all kind of directions. It feels good.
Glenn Ford
#15. Your survival is imperative. With your death would come great loss. The supernatural world would be unable to recover itself for a millennium.
Amanda Carlson
#16. [Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#17. Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
Alexia Purdy
#18. While it is one thing to wish for the truth, it is quite another to cope with it
Jeremy Griffith
#19. Because I love you, and to see you in any kind of pain is intolerable. If you are hurt, I will always do my best to see that you are mended.
K.M. Shea
#21. We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#22. We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press ... It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.
Fisher Ames
#23. Those moments of knowing are sharp and merciless, but then they fade out, like stars when the sky gets light in the morning. You know, and then you don't know.
Joan Wickersham
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