Surviving Quotes

You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

Humor is the best means of surviving in a difficult world.

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

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.

After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now.

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice.

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

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.

Surviving means being born over and over.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

What do your parents know, about surviving?

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

You're not surviving if you're not on social media, period.

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

I have learned the power of surviving.

Not actively surviving is passively dying.