#survived

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#blair #during #face #faced #had

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#earned #experiences #gallantry #grace #high

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived. ↗

— John Boorman

#define #great #human #human behavior #i

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#dealt #disturbed #epoch #ever #historical

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#carefully #everything #first #first of all #good

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#i #more #possibly #should #survived

I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days. ↗

— TobyMac

#because #days #difficult #i #i can

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#best friend #cancer #died #father #five

We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived. ↗

— Guy Laliberte

#big #could #courage #day #down

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#care #childhood #dad #him #job