Survived Quotes

486 quotes by 402 authors

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. — Ronald Reagan
Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/ — Howard Tayler
To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. — Frederick Buechner
Itâ€™s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if weâ€™ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we… — Nick Bostrom
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the… — Israel Shamir
Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or… — Camille Paglia
Iâ€™m 23 right now and I feel like Iâ€™m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, Iâ€™ll have it all together.… — Chanel Iman
A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which… — Ned Sublette
Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming… — David Frum
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people… — David Lloyd George
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires -… — Arthur Peacocke
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic. — Anne Stevenson
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time. — Andrew Weil
Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than… — Desmond Morris
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. — Christopher McDougall
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the Capitoline Hill to… — Northrop Frye
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. — Kenzaburo Oe

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