#survive

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#flight #forces #had #i #just

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#does #either #evidence #scientific #scientific evidence

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#blasts #brave #derision #efforts #first

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. ↗

— Ed Smith

#both #came #certainly #chefs #deep

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#chance #cure #effect #got #iii

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#having #rare #survive #talent #to 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

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. ↗

— Harlan Stone

#creative #democracy #guidance #minority #survive