“The function of staying alive is automatic, living your life is not, living takes knowing what you are doing and where you… — Mark Quam Copy Share Image
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth,… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style'… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water,… — Joseph M. Marshall III Copy Share Image
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death… — John Irving Copy Share Image
He'll die first, we both know it, but I don't know... I really don't know how long I'll stay alive without him.… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“The big man shrugged, "I don't know. You're pretty good with the cards. Tell me what the odds are." [She] shifted her… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Dictators are not strategists in the way I normally use that term. All the dictator cares about is survival. That means constantly… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is… — Don Altman Copy Share Image
I tell myself I have to work out to stay alive. I'm not just staying alive to stay alive, I mean stay… — Bob Backlund Copy Share Image
We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“You’ll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don’t have to worry about staying alive any… — Sebastyne Young Copy Share Image
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust the… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales. — Ayshay 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
“So what do you do for a living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live… — Frank E. Peretti Copy Share Image
“For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive, ...” — JJ Abrams Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a great actress. I'm just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I'm good, and I've learned a… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes… — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“There is something heroic about a person in struggle with herself, strained on the rack of conscience, suffering torments, yet staying alive… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“The big man shrugged, "I don't know. You're pretty good with the cards. Tell me what the odds are." [She] shifted her gaze to Michael, then back at Hollis. "This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman chose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting for you. Staying…” quote by Justin Cronin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/099/justin-cronin-2437_love_the-big-man-shrugged-i-don-t-know-you-re_1484808.png)
