#survives

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Helmuth von Moltke

#contact #enemy #ever #plan #survives

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#arrogant #because #believe #chest #controlled

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Colin Powell

#contact #enemy #plan #survives

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#care #define #geographical #live #lousy

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#difficult #difficult circumstances #home #how #raised

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#customer #dusty #end #filter #final

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

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#always #baseball #been #everything #life

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 was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. ↗

— John Travolta

#died #how #i #icon #james