Survived Quotes - Page 7

• No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

  Peter Kreeft

  Culture, Lessons, Firsts

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• The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

  Nicole Krauss

  Memories, Data, Ideas

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.39, Anchor

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• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  Ted Olson

  Airplane, Planes, Being True

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• I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Morning, Waiting, Generations

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• I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

  Donald T. Regan

  Years, Victory, Stories

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• The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

  Ernst Zundel

  Friends, Long, Reason Why

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• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  Manuel Puig

  Growing Up, Years, Saws

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• You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Dark, Age

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• I've been married a couple of times and survived!

  Pamela Anderson

  Couple, Married

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• Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we honour the memory of those who perished and the legacy of those who survived, including many who found refuge in Canada. It is by remembering the tragedies and atrocities of the past that we can equip ourselves to prevent them from happening again. That is why this national tour, which will reach Canadians of all ages and backgrounds, is an important initiative

  Jason Kenney

  Country, Memories, Past

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• Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end, with its transcendent end, let go, we are the poem, we have come miles of life, we have survived this far to tell you, go on, go on.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Letting Go, Stories, Goes On

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.18, Hawthorne Books

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• Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion.

  Jack White

  Taken, Heart, Kids

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• She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

  Anne Cameron

  Survival, Live Well, Wells

  Anne Cameron (2002). “Daughters of Copper Woman”, Harbour Publishing Company

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• Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Helping Others, Survival, Helping

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Strong, Growing Up

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• A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Night, Years, Feels Just

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• When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.

  Leon Brown

  Pain, Worry, Negative

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• The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Civilization

  "Philosophy: Who Needs It".

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• I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

  Hillary Clinton

  Ebb And Flow, Natural, I Can

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• The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

  H. L. Mencken

  Finals, Tests, Dogma

  H.L. Mencken (1918). “Damn”, p.74, Рипол Классик

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• Every day when everybody would have lunch I would do TM [Transcendental Meditation] and then I would eat while I was working because I had missed lunch but that is how I survived the 9 years [of Seinfeld], it was that 20 minutes in the middle of the day would save me.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Years, Lunch, Meditation

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• I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

  Jack Steinberger

  Loyalty, Years, Berkeley

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• My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Morning, Dad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faith, Atheist, Religion

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.99, BoD – Books on Demand

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• FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Horse, Stars, Fall

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.210, Psychology Press

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