#viv

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. ↗

— George Orwell

#fight #necessary #often #survive #to survive

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

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#destruction #earthquakes #floods #funny #funny-and-random

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#behind #each #few #friend #friendships

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve. ↗

— John Henry Patterson

#corporations #men #must #serve #survive

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#conscious #deliberate #humanity #now #only

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#did #i #most #soldier #survived

I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#best work #character #create #doing #entirely

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#bit #comics #downhill #improved #kind