Surviving Quotes

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

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

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.