I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

I always believe that it's better to be idealistic in love than be that cynic. That's the only way to survive a relationship.

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

I have been in the most dangerous of places just in order to survive. An intelligent man would stay in a safe place to survive.

Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.

The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody's role, and when you're in a group like that, that can't survive.

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive ... - Dalai Lama

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

There's no way that any tabloid can survive if it doesn't get women to read it.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.

If we bring together the right people, communities can flourish and wildlife can survive alongside them.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

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