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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Survive Quotes

I want my words to survive translation.

– Kazuo Ishiguro

A lot of films need planning in order to survive at all. It’s part of the dog and pony show.

– John Turturro

To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.

– Jeff Fisher

I have someone else clean my house so that it will actually get cleaned, and I let kids in my house survive on Peeps and ‘SpongeBob.’

– Julia London

I’m interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn’t survive and I’m examining closely the reasons they failed.

– Marina Abramovic

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

– Margaret J. Wheatley

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

– Josh Pais

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

– Joan Greenwood

We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

– Marc Jacobs

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

– Jalal Talabani

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

– John Henry Patterson

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

– Lawrence M. Krauss

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

– Karl Lagerfeld

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

– Mark Wahlberg

We have to fight sometimes to survive.

– Jan Berry

Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen.

– Krista Tippett

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

– Margaret Atwood

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

– Kimberly Elise

I don’t think I’d ever really survive the outdoors.

– Jared Gilman

I’ve always been able to survive by writing, though.

– John Milius

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let ‘them’ steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I’m here to thrive, not just to survive.

– Lydia Lunch

Prosperous communities are much better able to survive hurricanes or other natural disasters because they have greater resources, both public and private, to fall back upon.

– Robert Zubrin

There’s something quite satisfying, quite reassuring about seeing a man having to survive.

– Sean Bean

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

– Raoul Vaneigem

Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.

– Ruth Ozeki

I feel like I’m witnessing the systematic destruction of a people’s ability to survive. It’s horrifying.

– Rachel Corrie

Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.

– Richard Engel

Even if they don’t know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

– Ronda Rousey

If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

– Richard Smalley

I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.

– Richard Parks Bland

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