Survived Quotes - Page 10

• Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who has survived past anyone's expectations, and make the simple assumption it wasn't an accident, and you understand why he did what he did, now you're ready to predict ... The key to forecasting is to understand both the constraints nations are under and the manner in which the struggle for power shapes leaders.

  George Friedman

  Struggle, Simple, Past

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Strong, Past, Humanity

  Source: variety.com

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• The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he was afraid the institute would lose the World Bank consultancies.I went back home and started the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology—an extremely elaborate name for the tiny institute that I started in my mother’s cow shed. My parents handed over family resources and said, “Put them to public purpose.” That’s how I survived.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Home, Technology

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year due to similar and often manageable complications. They die because they don't have access to critical maternity care that could easily save their lives.

  Christy Turlington

  Girl, Daughter, Years

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• As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment. As a wife, anything that my husband is passionate about and helps to support. As a community member, anything that supports the Vail Valley, the place that I call home. As a friend of the founder and true believer in their mission, an organization called First Descents. They provide adventure camps to young adults and adults with cancer or who have survived cancer.

  Trista Sutter

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

  George Singleton

  Childhood, Information, Lasts

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

  Gregory Rabassa

  Two, Would Be, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.

  Philippa Perry

  Letting Go, Swings, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.

  Michel'le

  Men, Mind, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Sick, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its continuing impact on us as a people. Its causes were complex. We can't apportion blame simplistically but rather [must] understand that blame has to be shared in different areas and levels of society. It was the very poorest of the poor, the small tenants and cottiers, who really suffered. Others were less affected. But most of all I welcomed the commemoration because it was a moment to look into our past and realize the courage and resilience of those who survived.

  Mary Robinson

  Past, Impact, Order

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

  David Attenborough

  Years, Littles, Doing Nothing

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. September 20, 2013.

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• My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by. Amazing songs. So that the slaves, just knowing that he, she, did not have the right legally to walk within one inch away from where the slave owner dictated, and yet the same person, wrote and sang with fervor, "If the lord wants somebody, here am I, send me." It's amazing.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Mean, Slave Owners

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Feet, Car, Brain

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mind, Trying, Tasks

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The primary reason America has survived is that we have had leaders who've respected the Constitution, feared it and the rule of law, and we've been very lucky there.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, America, Leader

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Majority Rule, America, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Fidel Castro outlasted U.S. presidents determined to overthrow him, survived the collapse of the communist bloc that sustained him and outlived many of those who wanted to replace him. For those reasons, he will go down in history as among the world's most skillful politicians, even if his achievements largely die with him.

  Tom Gjelten

  Achievement, President, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.

  Tod Goldberg

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching moment for those who survived.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Teaching, Historical, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Eddie Vedder

  Parenting, Trying, Negative

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• I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Holocaust, Doe

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• That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Reality, Grace

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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