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Tag Name "Survived" (307)

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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
David Chipperfield
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Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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 the Iranians) were quite legal.
David Frum
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Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
George Michael
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
Woodrow Wilson
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I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.
George Soros
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People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.
Devendra Banhart
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
Yann Martel
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She had never really listened to anyone in her life which, some said, was why she had survived.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.
Diane Ackerman
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Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.
Yoko Ono
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The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.
Gloria Estefan
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Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't.
Dick Francis
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Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
Zadie Smith
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After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.
Graydon Carter
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The girl I am now, this girl-she survived. I just needed a little help getting here.
Donna Freitas
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Nothing could have survived our life.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
H. L. Mencken
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I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma...I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking.
Doug Morris
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Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
Hany Abu-Assad
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I felt guilty because I survived.
Edgar Hilsenrath
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