#survived

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#carry #earth #had #hadn #here

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#books #century #chemistry #city #could

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 truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#ignorance #our #race #scientific #survived

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#being #family #happiness #happy #just

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

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#amazed #long #mars #observer #probably

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#art #art history #basically #century #early

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. ↗

— Richard Branson

#airways #always #battle #british #competitive

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