We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving. Votes: 6
Jose Ortega y GassetIf surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. Votes: 5
Fidel CastroLanguage is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. Votes: 4
Simon Van BooyThe No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't. Votes: 3
Robert I. SuttonI want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory. Votes: 3
Todd McFarlaneJust remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been. Votes: 3
Joan RiversSurviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset. Votes: 3
Joe TetiBeing a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Votes: 3
J. B. SmooveSurviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited. Votes: 3
Jacques DerridaWhen you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. Votes: 2
Cristiano RonaldoNothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. Votes: 2
John CiardiConfidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times. Votes: 1
Lailah Gifty AkitaHuman spirit needs music. Music nourish the soul to survive life's trauma. Votes: 1
Lailah Gifty AkitaWhat they did to me does not matter, what matters is I survived the circumstance. Votes: 1
Lailah Gifty AkitaOnly the schools' inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25. Votes: 0
George LeonardWe are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident! Votes: 0
Joel GreenblattA culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists. Votes: 0
L. Ron HubbardI've never felt like this before, with anyone. It's against the rules of surviving. Votes: 0
Jessica SorensenForget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough. Votes: 0
Lionel RichieNo matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz. Votes: 0
Art SpiegelmanThere's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get Votes: 0
Charles de Lint[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive. Votes: 0
Jonathan Safran FoerStyle is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy. Votes: 0
C. Z. GuestI close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving. Votes: 0
Julie Anne PetersMy definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match. Votes: 0
Arlen SpecterBut no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. Votes: 0
Max BrooksI think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system. Votes: 0
Stephen HawkingI need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice. Votes: 0
Natalia TenaYou owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving. Votes: 0
Michael JohnsonI first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous. Votes: 0
Francesco ClementeIt's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.' Votes: 0
Theodore BikelI mean, personally, I would have had no problem surviving. Come on, how hard is it to swim? Votes: 0
Zach BraffHe used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. Votes: 0
Marion Zimmer BradleyEvery day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much. Votes: 1 Michael McCaul
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. Votes: 1 Atul Gawande
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive. Votes: 1 David Blaine
As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little. Votes: 1 Simon Van Booy
Everything I had ever learned about air fighting taught me that the man who is aggressive, who pushes a fight, is the pilot who is successful in combat and who has the best opportunity for surviving battle and coming home. Votes: 3 Robert S. Johnson
I think the theater is basically the boot camp for the actor. If you can survive the rigors of an eight-show-a-week schedule and be at your best all the time, you can handle virtually everything because no other craft requires you to get it right every single time. Votes: 1 Corey Reynolds
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. Votes: 2 Siri Hustvedt
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. Votes: 1 Siri Hustvedt
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. Votes: 1 Anne Stevenson
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality. Votes: 3 Carl Sagan
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression. Votes: 1 Stuart Symington
Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much. Votes: 1 Michael McCaul
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. Votes: 1 Andy Grove
I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right. Votes: 1 Dick Cheney
The craziest thing I've probably done during a show is the balcony dive - it was pretty scary. I was like, 'This could result in an injury of mine,' but somehow I survived. Votes: 1 Steve Aoki
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. Votes: 1 Robert Winston
I need both music and acting to even think about surviving life. I don't have a choice. Votes: 3 Natalia Tena
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. Votes: 1 Cristiano Ronaldo
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity. Votes: 1 Diane Ackerman
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. Votes: 1 Amanda Lindhout
When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me. Votes: 1 Jeffrey Skoll
Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth. Votes: 3 Julian Baggini