Outlived Quotes
46 quotes by 41 authors
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
— Lord Byron
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second,…
— Janet Erskine Stuart
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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.
— Eudora Welty
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When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for…
— Joseph Henry Shorthouse
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To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy,…
— Phyllis Bottome
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The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos,…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution,…
— Karl Marx
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My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought…
— Alexander McQueen
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens.
— Bill Hicks
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I have outlived that care that curries public favour or dreads the public frown…let the hand of law strike me down if it will, but…
— Ned Kelly
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We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the…
— Terence McKenna
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And so [my brother] Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters…
— George Seldes
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I've outlived all my diet doctors.
— Merv Griffin
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There was much bitterness in the family. There were even those who would liked to have considered Barnabas Collins dead. But he lived on. He…
— Barnabas
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Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that…
— Guy Finley
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
— George Eliot
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
— Benjamin Rush
Who Wrote These Outlived Quotes
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