#survive

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#going #keep #know #long #make

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environment #favors #leave #nature #organisms

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#any #fight #game #gladiator #i

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. ↗

— John McCarthy

#believes #even #extreme #his #humanity

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bruce #characters #clooney #doing #everyone

If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

#age #become #beings #committing #embarrassing

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

— John Milius

#always #been #i #survive #though

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#because #bring #church #democracy #enough

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#does #interesting #literature #made #makes

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Helmuth von Moltke

#contact #enemy #ever #plan #survives