No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
I don’t think anybody can totally change what they are. I’d always been a strident individual, but cancer does smooth off a lot of the edges. I have been lucky to have survived an extra 12 years of my life with my wife and daughter.
Don’t worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains… who is the next Ronald Reagan?
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires – and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles deserve an apology.
I had a lot of strong women around my whole life who were survivors. My grandma survived breast cancer twice and the death of her child and the death of her brother, and, you know, just a lot of tragedy, and she’s still the happiest person I’ve ever met.
I have removed the spleen from a dog, from cats, and rabbits. In all cases, the animals survived the operation and did not appear to be in the least affected by the absence of the organ.
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we’ve not only survived, we’ve used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I’ve survived under the worst of eras and times, and I’ve always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.
I was in a coma for a long time and in and out of the hospital for a year. For sure, when I’m in a fight and having a hard time, I think back to that time because that was the worst. No matter how bad things are, my attitude is that it’s nothing compared to what happened then. Thank God I survived it.
I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn’t much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over 60.
I dont like being classed as a celebrity. Im a normal actor whos survived. I find the people at those parties are just there to be seen rather than to engage. That isnt me.
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th century. It will recover from the financial panic of 2008-09 and Obamanomics.
I had a great ’70s. I survived it, and that’s always good news.
Scandals have impacted many politicians’ careers and aspirations. Some have survived, and others have fallen.
I’ve been to hell and back. I’m just glad I survived.
During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church’s Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices – fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.
I only survived because of my mother’s love and care.
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’
If you’re actually talking to someone who’s been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.
You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know – I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It’s an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that’s proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.
Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.
When I started out, there were many different companies… you could leave and go to a different territory, and there were so many different styles. What we have now is WWE has survived the test of time, and all the other companies have fallen off the face of the earth.
I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.
I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Tragedy struck the family when I was 10 days old. My eldest brother was killed in a car accident. He was six. My grandmother survived the incident, but the loss devastated my parents. I think they went into shock for a couple of years.
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
I never hate my bullies from high school. I actually kind of appreciate them. If it wasn’t for that boot camp training of how the world treats gay people and especially drag queens, I don’t know if I would have survived as well as I have.
I’ve had friends who have experienced pretty horrible things, some pretty brutal things, and survived. And I know that they and I would never want them to be without the ability to defend themselves.
That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first – that’s how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.
If you look at the copies of Churchill’s speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
I’m lucky to be alive. I’m one of only 40 people who have survived the surgery I had, and when you’ve been that close to dying, you re-evaluate what’s really important to you – and it’s nothing to do with fame and money.
Ernest Rutherford’s 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn’t given for the nuclear power station – he wouldn’t have survived that long – it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I’ve been a part of, and some of the people I’ve gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.
My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.
I barely remembered my father; I’m confused between genuine memory and the few photographs that survived.
I survived in high school by working at Kentucky Fried Chicken and made my way up to assistant manager. I was surviving high school and college with that job.
Travelgate eventually faded, and the nation somehow survived – American exceptionalism at work again.
