Survivance Literature Quotes & Sayings

So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you're here to continually push forward and move forward. That's where I'm at - I just want to always surprise people. — Maxwell

That's why all those records from high school sound so good. It's not that the songs were better - it's that we were listening to them with our friends, drunk for the first time on liqueurs, touching sweaty palms, staring for hours at a poster on the wall, not grossed out by carpet or dirt or crumpled, oily bedsheets. These songs and albums were the best ones because of how huge adolescence felt then, and how nostalgia recasts it now. — Carrie Brownstein

Responsibility found expression in resolution. — Rob Sanders

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college. — Oscar Robertson

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line. — Mark Twain

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge. — Alan Cumming

I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland. — Robert Harris

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me. — Italo Calvino

The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. — Gloria Steinem

When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up. — Lysa TerKeurst

The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival, la Survivance. — Margaret Atwood

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public. — Maxim Gorky

Lupe's language is just a little different," Juan Diego was saying. "I can understand it. — John Irving

I think life awards you if have your priorities in the right place. — Max Bemis