The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

All you can really do is try to be a good person and try to make good decisions and try to survive.

One thing about the entertainment industry - it's not something that people need to survive.

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

You have to realize that myself and others that have been wrongfully convicted of crimes, we've dealt with the situation. You realize that you're not going to survive in prison or progress as a human being if you allow yourself to continue to hold on to this negative energy.

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers.

For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

You must change in order to survive.

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

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.