Quotes of: Survived Keyword

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

William Kirby

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Joyce Maynard

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

Daniel H. Wilson

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

Nicolas Cage

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Stephen Hawking

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Noam Chomsky

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Paul Mooney

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Michael Shermer

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

Phoebe Snow

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

Oscar Niemeyer

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

John Tesh

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Rebecca Solnit

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

J. William Fulbright

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

Andre Leon Talley

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

Barbara de Angelis

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Danny Boyle

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

Deepak Chopra

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger