Best Staying Alive Quotations
163 Staying Alive quotes by 144 unique authors
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You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
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It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass…
— Felix Baumgartner
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We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went…
— Marie Howe
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My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without…
— Henry Rollins
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The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
— Ann Landers
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The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can…
— Bear Grylls
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Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
— Mireille Guiliano
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I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't…
— Bill Cosby
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An older guy, he's going to show you things that a young man can't show you. He's going to show you how to stay alive.…
— Snoop Dogg
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In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and…
— David Hackworth
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Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually…
— Anne Lamott
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do…
— Yoko Ono
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
— Patrick Swayze
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If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes…
— John Irving
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..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all…
— Neal Stephenson
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Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
— Carl Sagan
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Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows…
— Charles Wright
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When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is…
— Toni Morrison
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Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
— George Orwell
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug…
— Langston Hughes
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It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves…
— Geraldine McCaughrean
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The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs…
— Michael Crichton
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Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care…
— Barry Lopez
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