My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles
We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin
We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
We laugh to survive.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Education is what survives when
what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the struggle for survival,
the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals
because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
- Charles Darwin
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
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe
to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
Beliefs have evolved based on survival value.
Certain belief systems have been more conducive than others
to people living long enough to reproduce,
and having a high rate of reproduction.
It's that basic.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival,
liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness
is a planet whose resources are devoted
to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
- Jimmy Carter
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves
for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
- Dylan Thomas
If we are not happy and joyous at this season,
for what other season shall we wait and
for what other time shall we look?
- Abdul-Baha
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted,
every hill and mountain shall be made low,
the rough places will be made straight
and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed
and all flesh shall see it together.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth?
Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we get piled upon one another
in large cities, as in Europe,
we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
- Thomas Jefferson
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy
and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
To keep the body in good health is a duty...
otherwise we shall not be able
to keep our mind strong and clear.
- The Buddha
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from this Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never, never and never again shall it be
that this beautiful land will again experience
the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela
We must all hang together,
or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
The cost of freedom is always high,
but Americans have always paid it.
And one path we shall never choose,
and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
- John F. Kennedy
If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.
- Sommeil Liberosensa
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
- Anton Chekhov
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
But there's a difference for me, you know.
Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
- Helen Keller
Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
A man is relieved and gay when he has
put his heart into his work and done his best;
but what he has said or done otherwise
shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill
Show me a man who knows his own heart
and to him I shall belong.
- Jewel
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world
shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller
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