Definition of Surviving

Surviving

of Survive

Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.

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Alive, As, Existing, Living, Of, Or, Remaining, Survive, Surviving, Yet

Surviving Quotations

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan Watts

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Epicurus

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
John Ciardi

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
Lorna Luft

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
Frank McCourt

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
James Longstreet

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
John Harvey Kellogg

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Richard Leakey

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
Josh Silver

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
Joseph Wambaugh

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
Leonard Maltin

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
William Kirby

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
Pat Oliphant

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
Lance Loud

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.
Bruce Johnston

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
Michael Bergdahl

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Cristiano Ronaldo

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
Russell Means

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.
Marcia Wallace

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg

Surviving is the only glory in war.
Samuel Fuller

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.
Lou Diamond Phillips

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
Eddie Bracken

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Surviving Translations

surviving in Swedish is kvarvarande

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