Best survival & survived Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Acting Skills Survival Bigger Survived Convincing Survival Skills

Author:Meryl Streep

“It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.”

Survival Butterfly Bees Survived Dinosaurs Bumble Bee

Book:Ripening: Selected Work

Source: Ripening: Selected Work

“The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.”

Source: Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll

“I believe in the basic goodness of my species, because that appears to be a positive tactic and quality that leads to better chances of survival- and in spite of our foolishness, we seem to have survived.”

Believe Seems I Believe Chance Quality Goodness Survival Species I Believe In Spite Survived Foolishness Tactics

Author:James Randi

“For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable terror that I deteriorated into a wild, frightened creature intent only on survival. And I survived. I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats and poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped into strait-jackets and half-drowned in ice baths. And I survived. The asylum itself was a steel trap, and I was not released from its jaws alive and victorious. I crawled out mutilated, whimpering and terribly alone. But I did survive.”

“The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.”

Ifs Men Wells Heart Mean Said Ends Sometimes Body Spirit Term Walks Alive Risk He Man Broken Victory Survival Prison Sentences Destroyed Gates Jail Survived Cradle Small Victories

Author:Gregory David Roberts

“A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.”

“That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.”

Believe Stills Survival Survived I Still Believe

Author:Lou Reed

“Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.”

“A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.”

Life Reality Life Is Grace Survival Stations Survived Elegance Gallantry

Book:Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.”

Years Winning Battle Survival British Survived British Airways

Author:Richard Branson

“But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.”

Source: Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake

“There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn’t like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far I’d survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price I’d paid.”

Moments Character Survival Paid Each Day Thrown Survived

Author:Charlaine Harris

“The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.”

World Long School Turns Survival Tests Endure Tricks Endless Burning Odds Survived Calamity Tribulation Slim Furnaces

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.”

Men Whole Science Study Tree Evolution Survival Accepted Doctrine Pigs Survived Guinea Guinea Pigs

Book:Personality

Source: Personality

“This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.”

“All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.”

Ifs Mother Strong Dark Growing Up Growing Survival Survived Closets Auschwitz

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.”

Helping Survival Helping Others Survived

Author:Elie Wiesel

“She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.”

Wells Survival Survived Live Well

Book:Daughters of Copper Woman

Source: Daughters of Copper Woman

“How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.”

“There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.”

People Happened Worst Survival Survived Transcendent

Author:Carol Lynn Pearson

“Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.”

I Can Can Do Forever Survival Asking Privilege Obligation Survived

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

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