#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

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

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

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

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good. ↗

— Jerry Goldsmith

#doubt #good #i #music #no doubt

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#cursed #dies #done #evil #him

The Lord survives the rainbow of His will. ↗

— Robert Lowell

#lord #rainbow #survives #will