#survive

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#because #bring #church #democracy #enough

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

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything. ↗

— Lee Grant

#being #big #chance #down #everything

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching. ↗

— Damon Hill

#beamed #been #being #children #drivers

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#be strong #believed #crisis #enough #even

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#again #america #certain #circumstances #climates

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#been #got #gullible #had #i

Same with souls. They can't survive without a body for long. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#long #same #souls #survive #without