Survive Quotes
2138 Survive quotes by 1526 unique authors
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Riley squinted. He ran his fingers along my neck. When he found the collar he explored the surface and tried to tug it. "No seams.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the…
— Richard Dawkins
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No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job.…
— Emily Giffin
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Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look…
— Chris Cleave
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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming,…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things…
— Waris Dirie
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You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not…
— Bryce Courtenay
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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host.
— Garth Stein
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How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper,…
— George Orwell
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I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I…
— Suzanne Collins
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When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it…
— Jim Butcher
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The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music…
— Haruki Murakami
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This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this,…
— John Steinbeck
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Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city…
— Thomas Paine
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Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.
— Karen Marie Moning
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People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.
— Ha-Joon Chang
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We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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War is brutish, inglorious, and a terrible waste... The only redeeming factors were my comrades' incredible bravery and their devotion to each other. Marine Corps…
— Eugene B. Sledge
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I didn't think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who'd been damaged…
— Lisa Kleypas
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There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three…
— Rob Thurman
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