#survive

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#could #criticism #far #i #kind

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

— Jalal Talabani

#democracies #dictatorships #fight #forgiving #generous

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#exercised #fact #itself #liberty #survives

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#all day #anything #being #dawn #day

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#decency #die #i #i believe #i believe that

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#enough #filmmaker #going #good #got

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#develop #only #population #protect #resources

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive. ↗

— Toni Collette

#covered #dirt #hot #how #i

Quality survives. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#survives