Surviving Quotes

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus

Courage, Happy, Adversity

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan Watts

Living, Point, Devil

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Cristiano Ronaldo

Love, Person, Difficult

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
Russell Means

Age, Free, Talk

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Live, May, Succeed

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
John Ciardi

Character, Nothing, Act

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.
Arlen Specter

Winning, Lost, Playing

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.
Diablo Cody

Women, Nothing, Matter

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
Giada De Laurentiis

Life, Work, Death

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
Carrie Fisher

Bring, Ashamed, Ill

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
Lorna Luft

Life, Choose, Coping

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.
Fred Durst

Life, Time, Car

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'
Rahm Emanuel

Today, Working, Said

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.
Mika

Find, Another, Club

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.
Conrad Black

Proud, Prison, Federal

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow

Great, School, Fun

I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
Manolo Blahnik

Smallest, Brands

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
Jarvis Cocker

Money, Diet, Long

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
Bear Grylls

Women, Courage, End

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
John Shelby Spong

Hero, Against, Themselves

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt

Good, Food, Enough

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
Josh Silver

Together, Far, Getting

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
Lance Loud

Success, Positive, Gay

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
Leonard Maltin

Greatest, Movie, United

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.
Steven Weber

Lie, Cheat, Point

For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
Kate Walsh

Work, Waiting, Coffee

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.
Bruce Johnston

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Richard Leakey

Forget, Single, Small

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
Joseph Wambaugh

Pretty, Police, Happened

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
John Harvey Kellogg

Battle, Church, Original

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