That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I've been under pressure so many times, and most of the time, I've survived. — Michael van Gerwen Copy Share Image
When nuclear weapons were an elite club of five relatively sane world powers, the Left was convinced the planet was about to… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel. — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In… — George Zimmer Copy Share Image
You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000.… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I could be dead or something even more tragic could have happened, but by God's grace I am still alive. I was… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything.… — Kelis Copy Share Image
So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
