#survived

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

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#ancient times #authors #copied #copyright #did

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. ↗

— James Buchan

#doubt #empire #fall #more #much

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#break #chain #i #might #negative

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#i #i feel #i feel like #life #like

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #civilizations #contact #dust #intimate

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. ↗

— Mort Walker

#army #attacking #both #both sides #experiences

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#faith #huge #i #life #my life

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#good #good news #great #had #i