Survives Quotes

227 Survives quotes by 203 unique authors

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness… — Alfred North Whitehead
I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives? — Charles Baudelaire
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion. — Tennessee Williams
Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything… — Anthony Burgess
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. — James G. Frazer
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches… — John Shelton Reed
Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more… — Frederick Lenz
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain… — Arthur C. Clarke
The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives. — Kris Kristofferson
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed… — Ernest Becker
Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins. — Ellie Kemper
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. — Bernard Cornwell
A writer survives in spite of his beliefs. — Alberto Moravia
Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all. — Charlton Laird
Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances. — Ernie J Zelinski
Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. — Homer
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art. — Roger Scruton
A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test. — Roger McDonald
Not every good idea survives. Not every new form of art is repeated. Not every new potential instinct is successful. Only the successful ones get… — Rupert Sheldrake
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. — Charles Saatchi
There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief. This reality no "one" survives. In Ultimate Reality no "one" is saved… — Adi Da
If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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