Quotes of: Surviving Keyword

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

Amanda Lindhout

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

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.

Wietse Venema

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

J. D. Hayworth

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

Lynn Nottage

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

Aleksandar Hemon

Adult Pi Patel: I wept like a child. Not because I was overwhelmed at having survived, although I was. I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. It broke my heart. You know my father was right: Richard Parker never saw me as hi...

Life of Pi

It's like I tell people at my stand-up shows: by making me a bitch, you have given me my freedom, the freedom to say and do things I couldn't do if I was "a nice girl" with some sort of stupid, goody-two-shoes image to keep up. Things that require co...

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

Your husband may not be a wealth of pregnancy information, but he is a wealth of 'you' information. He probably knows you better than anyone else in this world (which means he understands your current neediness pretty well). He also probably loves yo...

The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby: Everything You Need to Know to Survive (and Love) Your Pregnancy

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or ...

The Fault in Our Stars

Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a mouse, and both are quite different from an oak tree. Yet in their fundamental chemistry they are rather uniform, and, in...

The Selfish Gene

If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who liv...

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes ...

Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing ...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

ALL HE COULD SEE, IN EVERY DIRECTION, WAS WATER. It was June 23, 1943. Somewhere on the endless expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Army Air Forces bombardier and Olympic runner Louie Zamperini lay across a small raft, drifting westward. Slumped alongside ...

Unbroken: A World War II Book of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Louie was furious at the sharks. He had thought that they had an understanding:The men would stay out of the sharks' turf - the water - and the sharks would stay off of theirs - the raft. That the sharks had taken shots at him when he had gone overbo...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

[There's] one... thing I can tell you about human nature: beautiful people are the last ones you want to befriend. Beautiful people float through life thinking that it's perfectly normal for others to gaze at them adoringly, and open doors for them, ...

Vibes

In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.

The Cordello Quest

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

In the Company of My Sisters

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

Crossing to Safety