#survive

A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#survive #universe #volunteer #men

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#space #star #survive #travel #self-knowledge

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive. ↗

— Adam Ant

#ant #ants #because #chose #explosion

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#humanity #identify #long #modes #ourselves

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#adjusting #desire #difficult #difficult things #entire

When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.' ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#crews #did #family #film #filmmakers

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#challenge #day #every #every day #i

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#change #intelligent #most #nor #species

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. ↗

— John Boorman

#define #great #human #human behavior #i

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive. ↗

— Edward Everett

#amends #fervent #make #nation #some