Outlived Quotations

If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From the time they met, in 1917, they were lifelong friends of sorts, though each was a bit wary of the other.

Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.

She brought my mom to life. My mom had a destiny that outlived her body.

I think there were 25 years difference in age. She outlived him, I think, 50 years and 10 presidents.

We're not totally surprised, because Galileo has already outlived expectations and we knew that it might encounter additional difficulties from the high-radiation environment on this flyby.

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

We've outlived the actuarial tables. Life expectancy for women was about 70 in 1931 and about 63 for men.

There was a huge boom in creating mainframe systems in the '60s and '70s, and we always felt they would be replaced, ... Much to our horror in some cases, today we've got 30-year-old systems that we thought would have outlived their useful life.

Detroit needs to increase its competitiveness by focusing on things it does well, like Ford's F-Series pickup trucks, and they need to discard brands that have outlived their usefulness, like Buick, Mercury and perhaps Pontiac.

This is the time for Connecticut to wake up and realize that zone pricing has outlived its (usefulness).

It's extremely critical, due to the fact that the existing septic tanks were built in the early to mid-70s. They have outlived their useful life and started to leak into the groundwater.

I met a lot of nice people here, ... but it outlived its usefulness. I would rather see it replaced than just sit here and deteriorate.

I played the first year (the 1966 season) this place opened. The way I look at it, I outlived this building.

The environmental rationale has been eliminated. It's outlived its usefulness and no longer needs to exist, and is causing difficulty in the fuels market.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.