Withstanding Quotes (page 2)

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• week
• food
• water

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. Paulo Coelho

• character
• characters
• rigour

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. Tom Stoppard

• insulting
• victory
• self

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them. Victor Hugo

• love
• she
• giving

If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love. Madeleine L'Engle

• greek
• words
• come

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom. Dave Barry

• people
• feeling
• movie

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema. Wesley Morris

• society
• enough
• city

The Society of American Civil Engineers, someone who's going to come in and say to the public, we've looked at, we've examined, we've reviewed the repairs and we think they're strong enough to withstand the type of hurricane that - that could hit the city this season. Marc Morial

• strong
• people
• today

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny. Tom Ford

• light
• rejection
• end

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Harrison Ford

• physics
• keeps
• willing

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling. Trish Stratus

• animal
• bad
• animalism

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year. John Hunter

• nature
• tree
• favorite

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything. Pink

• sick
• soldier
• old

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence. James Wolfe

• change
• progress
• management

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. Alan Perlis

• thinking
• assaulted
• sustained

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire