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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation, things

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.

Quote by Ted Olson about opinion, things

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his...

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about friendship

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and...

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about humanity

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Quote by Cesare Pavese about children, recollection, imagination, faith, world, life

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my...

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war, world

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must...

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, literary critic, emotions, poets

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with...

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

Quote by Tennessee Williams about life, grace

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of...

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger about life, being

Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions.

Quote by Ernesto Sabato about literature, dream, workers, heads

I am confident that this world will survive even to the...

I am confident that this world will survive even to the greatest egos.

Quote by Marius Torok about optimism, world

In the indifferent eyes of nature only the fit survive; on the other hand, God favors whoever He sees fit. Lines of Thought by an Unknown Author

Quote by Mark Amend about survival, eyes, nature, thinking, god

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go...

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Quote by Elizabeth Taylor about survival, example, people

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to...

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Quote by Maya Angelou about life, humor, style

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, ...

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Quote by Bruce Lee about opinion

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