#survive

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

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ↗

— George Orwell

#fight #necessary #often #survive #to survive

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#arrogant #because #believe #chest #controlled

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#conscious #deliberate #humanity #now #only

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#about #hope #long #more #our

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#beings #challenges #drama #earth #human

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

— Margaret Atwood

#less #like #survive #you