Quotes of: Survived Keyword

His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

The Rules of Survival

In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.

Slow Decay

Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.

Safe Haven

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

The Memory of Love

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

Let the Right One In

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

Life of Pi

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The Last Song

The day people will start using their learner's instincts instead of the survival instincts in the education, our society will no longer be a place where education kills your knowledge.

A Leap Within

In this century, we are about to enter interplanetary civilization. In order to survive, we need to go beyond neoclassical economics definition. We define it as interplanomics.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

Maus, II: And Here My Troubles Began

Life is ever reaching for strength, vitality, survival and the fulfillment of perpetuating its inherent message of continuance.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it.

Speak

I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie

Summer Camp Survival