We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
I love you. You're my only reason to stay alive... if that's what I am. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“So too with theorizing: the instinct is about staying alive, but the excess is about living. (p.99)” — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat! — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my… — Lillian Vernon Copy Share Image
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a… — Johannes Heesters Copy Share Image
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast. One day we are absorbed by dressing well, following the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“It was terribly risky, maybe even hopeless. But one or two properly armed, well-trained soldiers could hold off an undisciplined mob indefinitely.… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Why?' says the boy. 'Why? Because staying alive is more important than anything else.' 'Why is staying alive more important than anything?'… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Sentience is not an end in itself. It is a means to the end of staying alive. Sentient beings use sensations of… — Francione, Gary L Copy Share Image
At the very end, without memory we are nothing. The things you say; the way you feel; the way you act in… — Mauro Remiddi Copy Share Image
“I redefined winning, expanded it beyond my original definition of not losing, of merely staying alive. That was no longer enough to… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them.… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
