#survive

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#did #i #most #soldier #survived

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

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Colin Powell

#contact #enemy #plan #survives

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#disposable #fine #growing #growing up #i

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy. ↗

— George A. Romero

#catholic #classmates #funny #funny guy #guy

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

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#better #better things #care #eat #got

I don't know if you ever say to yourself that you want to be an actress. It eventually becomes a social function - you are an actress and you make a living out of it, but at the beginning it's more a matter of how to survive, or how to exist in a certain way. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#becomes #beginning #certain #certain way #eventually

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#created #freaks #little #living #only