Surviving Quotations

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

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.

Will I ever again doubt that miracles exist? Not after giving birth to my daughter at 47 without fertility treatments, after surviving breast cancer.

We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice.

There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinking the night before - ever. You can celebrate after with some bubbly. Second is make sure to use shoe insoles. I don't care if you are a guy or a girl, dress shoes are painful. Worth it, but painful.

The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

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.

After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the African Union. We are the only African country that has never been colonized. This is perhaps the last surviving African civilization.

After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.

Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.

Men and women of western Sydney, it's appropriate, you apparently believe, that Australia's oldest surviving Prime Minister should make the concluding remarks in Australia's oldest surviving Government House. I hope the building's foundations are a bit more substantial than mine.

Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.

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

'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously about surviving with other people.

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old, we wouldn't be able to survive. We would have a hard time surviving if we were transported to the time when dinosaurs were around.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

We both survived. It's all about surviving now, and getting to the next round of games. I'm sure both teams are happy to be playing yet.

We're just happy that we've still got life left. Once you get to this point of the season, it's all about surviving and advancing.

We knew they weren't going to shoot 100 percent. Coach always tells us about surviving their first blow and we did that.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

When I began to drive Formula I in the 1970's, the odds of surviving was 7 to 1. Incredible high risks. The odds of surviving now are like 800 to one.

Lunatic Wind: Surviving out the Storm of the Century

So maybe we're just getting our pat on the back for surviving the backlash,

My entire family is in Mississippi. My dad has managed to call me twice, just long enough to tell me that they have lost everything - absolutely everything. One of my brothers called me and said, 'We are barely surviving - can you help?' I had been watching the destruction on television in disbelief, and that phone call was enough for me. I cannot sit idly by while these people, especially my loved ones, have nothing. I felt guilty that night taking a shower...these people don't even have a place to rest their head.

I?d love to be able to contact any surviving relatives of the remainder of the crew. All my efforts so far have drawn a blank other than finding Lorne?s brother. It would be fantastic if any of the relatives in Canada, if traced, could be there for the dedication.

Built in 1763, it is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America. Still in use, the building combines an intimate elegance with Classical grandeur in the best tradition of Georgian architecture. It is also a National Landmark, the highest designation given to an American building.

Built in 1763, it is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America,

If the surviving company is French, it won't be eligible for the S&P 500 index.

He flipped the switch and took over our team. It's fun to have a mature guy who's not (just) surviving at quarterback. He's getting better every play.

He'd obviously been there a long time and whatever he was surviving on wasn't giving him that much nutrition. (He is) a big tall man, six foot two, six foot three, and he was just a walking skeleton basically.

What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.

We may have survived a little bit if we were in Conference USA with this team, but surviving in the Big East is another story. You have to grow up in a hurry. We are just not physically talented with out inexperience and youth.

Harley-Davidson began producing motorcycles in 1903 and has been the only continuous surviving domestic producer of heavyweight motorcycles since that period. The company's shares continue to represent our best large-cap idea in the leisure area.

Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.

I think you get a feel after a while when you watch guys as they're making blocks and can tell if they are just surviving in the game, or if they're looking to win the game.

It has been a longtime favorite of our citizenry, surviving graffiti and destruction all these years, ... As one of the last brick buildings, it is sad to see it go. It's a reminder of the businesses that once thrived along Spokane Street.

I think steel's going to recover to robust profitability for surviving companies for the most part due to reduction in supply.

Surviving for 30 years is not an end to itself. But for 30 years we've tried to better society. We've tried to contribute to deeper changes.

Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

I think of it like, if I am surviving in the wild, how do I get around? Like a mountain lion, jumping rock to rock.

It could've been prettier, but the state tournament is all about surviving and advancing. We're going to the next round but we're going to have to play better as the tournament progresses or we won't be in it for long.

We can't continue commenting on matters that are in court. Actually we are concentrating too much on such things when people in rural areas are surviving on caterpillars.

We realize peace of mind for many couples comes from knowing a spouse will be taken care of financially. Nationwide L-Inc guarantees a surviving spouse will receive a lifetime income stream.

We're dealing with a suspect whose description is pretty general, a suspect who was not recognized by the surviving victims, and a suspect who, apparently, made no statement during the commission of his horrible crime,

We could never study an ancient tsunami without having some man-made materials surviving from that time. This temple is our link to that.

We are in a new and potentially deadly era for storms, one that demands new technology, new tools. It's not enough to watch TV or listen to the radio anymore. It's a good start, but if you want to maximize your odds of surviving a storm, any storm, you need multiple safety nets. You should never be totally dependent on just one source.

We're not getting rich by any means, we're surviving and we're healing, ... and we're just tryin' to make a buck.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.

This young man's very lucky to be alive. Traveling any distance in a tornado and surviving is a big deal.

Without this edition, eighteen of Shakespeare's plays including some of his most famous like Macbeth, The Tempest and other plays would have been lost for all time. It's the only surviving source for eighteen of Shakespeare's plays. With regard to this particular copy of the first folio, it's remarkable because it's preserved in it's original seventeenth century binding. There's no other copy in the world in private hands preserved in a seventeenth century binding complete with all it's text leaves.

Two veteran pitchers surviving the heat. Kenny and Radke gave their clubs everything they had. That was impressive.

But neither of these paths promises you a good chance of surviving and thriving over the long haul. You're more likely to end up among the tens of thousands of businesses in the U.S. that quietly fizzle or spectacularly flame out every year.

While the numbers in the study are very small, the resistance and clinical failures here are very important. Resistance could mean the difference between surviving and not surviving.

We got a little careless there at the end. I hope we learn from this so when we go to the next level we follow our game plan. I thought our kids did a nice job of making adjustments and rebounding. That's a good team we played. We're playing some pretty good basketball right now. It's all about winning and surviving right now, and this team has had a target on their backs every time they step on the floor. When you score 101 points in a district final -- that's pretty good.

When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.

This new regulatory regime for cable could potentially have devastating impacts for our proverbial 500-channel universe of diverse cable offerings. It very well could be the case that government regulation here could destroy that diversity and drive out some of the smaller niche channels out there, which would find a difficult time surviving on their own in a la carte world.

Every second after arrest is critical and if we fail to use the defibrilator within two minutes of that the patient's chance of surviving is just 40 per cent.

Every gang member that I have worked with is enamored by the hip-hop culture and the lifestyles of this genre's rich and famous. It is common for youths to emulate these rap artists by wearing similar gangster-type clothing. This alone is not concerning. The concern evolves when the behavior and attitude begin to go as south as the pants. Certain rap artists tout their criminal history, gang affiliation and their fortune of surviving gun battles. It becomes a concern, when dealing with a very troubled individual that is consumed by the gang mentality.

Every game has been about surviving and believing in ourselves. That's what teams have to do.

The rovers went through all of the Martian seasons and are back to late summer. We're preparing for the challenge of surviving another Martian winter.

The snakehead is an exotic species capable of surviving and reproducing in Kentucky, ... They are top predators in their native range and we are worried about them. They are reproducing in Maryland and their biologists are tremendously concerned. They compete with native species and that is a giant negative.

Sometimes it falls for you and sometimes it doesn't, but luckily for us the ball bounced our way. We did survive, but at this time of year, like the NCAA Tournament, it is about surviving and advancing. That's what we did.

People think surviving cancer is tough, or surviving a divorce, but NOTHING compares with fighting with American Culture when you want to raise your kids free of junk food. Read Junk Food Nation. A great book.

People start panicking because they think it's the end of everything. But the fact is, you know, books survived movies; books survived TV. Books are surviving manga and anime. Books will always be there in one form or another. You just have a larger palette of entertainment options.

People are thinking about surviving these days more than they used to.

The more of these events there are, inevitably the weaker she becomes. Surviving a crisis in leadership doesn't necessarily strengthen a leader." ()

The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names.

This is the first time the boys have finished first in two years. It was tough surviving such a cold day.

This particular stand has an unusually high number of surviving chestnut saplings, ... Most of our American chestnuts die before they get this big.

This is the only surviving television or appliance that Elvis shot out that was kept.

There is truth to the fact that competition and markets are more global, especially in the U.S., where being protective of the home company is a little less fashionable than it was 10 or 15 years ago. Merging provides a role for these folks and makes them a surviving entity.

It might not have been our best effort of the season, but we sure feel good about surviving and moving on.

It's all about surviving and advancing. That's all you can hope to do. We survived and dodged a bullet. Maybe we'll learn a lesson.

Dale's death accelerated a lot of the safety provisions we have today. Anytime you see your Superman, your hero, taken away I'm not saying that would have been the savior for Dale, but we know that it gives everyone a much better chance of surviving that type of situation. If that hadn't have happened, those things would probably come a lot slower. From such a horrific accident, we can look back and say that some good things did come from that.

The average speed is 35 mph which means that there were a high number of cars going above that. The chances of surviving if you get hit by a car at 25 mph are far higher than if you get hit by a car at 35 mph.

It wasn't a pretty game, but it's not about how pretty you look, it's about surviving and winning.

They are having a hard time surviving the peace after they survived the war,

They were among the few surviving comfort women -- an estimated 90 percent had been killed while imprisoned. During that emotional lecture I thought of the girl who had disappeared in Shanghai and wanted to explore the possibility that this might have been her fate.

Serbia is incapable of preventing the international community from imposing sanctions, but it is capable of surviving the embargo.

I mean, al Qaeda, after all, has been pretty well splintered in its, the head of the monster is off, but the body is surviving in many other forms.

Information is probably the most important thing we can do -- sharing information, communicating with citizens, businesses, health care industry -- so that everybody can think about what they need to do, what is their part in surviving a pandemic situation.

In January, he put this team on his back and saved the season when we had every excuse and every reason to give into the schedule, to give into the situations. Surviving January was an incredible statement by Carmelo.

I'm living proof that early diagnosis and treatment can improve your chances of surviving oral, head and neck cancer.

I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

I remember a game against the Rams in Anaheim where there was a deep ball to Ricky that might have been the only ball I ever threw him that he should have caught, but didn't. He dropped it. Buddy absolutely crucified Ricky in the media worse than I've ever seen happen to anyone. But Ricky then is just like Ricky now. He's a total pro and he just kept working. Buddy Ryan tried to bury both Ricky and I while we were there. He was pretty good at that kind of stuff and he ruined some careers. I survived it and Ricky's still surviving it.

I'll put it this way. We're surviving and we hope the voles aren't.

He's shown remorse for the victims, the surviving victims, and the pain and suffering. He actually has told them in writing and on the telephone that he's very sorry for what happened to their loved ones, ... But he's not sorry about what he did. I mean, he believes in and I think he's comfortable with that.

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

I'm surviving. I'm a survivor.

Thriving. That's fighting... Surviving is barely getting by.

For the last two weeks, all we've been getting is negative pre-announcements. There could be potential out there for a positive if we do see some stabilization in corporate earnings and companies prove they are surviving a very tough economic environment.

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

There is more to life than surviving.