Survived Quotes - Page 12

• Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

  Mason Cooley

  Tests, Capability, Perversion

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• If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.

  Pat Buchanan

  Borders, Minorities, Transformation

  "Pat Buchanan On Why He Shares Trump's Ideas On Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 5, 2016.

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• [F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

  Gideon Haigh

  Years, Games, Innovation

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• When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He
  survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare
  system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just
  had to pay the inheritance tax.

  Emo Philips

  Father, Heart, Car

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• One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.

  Otto Frank

  Morning, Sunday, Doctors

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• And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Teacher, Lying, Miracle

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• Yanagihara's most impressive trick is the way she glides from scenes filled with those terrifying hyenas to moments of epiphany. 'Wasn't it a miracle to have survived the unsurvivable? Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? Wasn't this house, this beauty, this comfort, this life a miracle?' A Little Life devotes itself to answering those questions, and is, in its own dark way, a miracle.

  Marion Winik

  Lonely, Dark, Miracle

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• The only thing I can point to of why I survived is I have a family that loves me and never wanted any money from me.

  Ethan Hawke

  Wanted, I Can

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 12, 2012.

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• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Numbers, Twenties, Band

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• ISS leak is just like on a ship, there are bulkheads that, if there's an emergency, can separate an area that's no longer airtight from the undamaged portion of the station. The former Russian space station Mir actually did once develop a leak, after colliding with an unmanned cargo ship. Everyone survived.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Emergencies, Ships

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Believe, Moments, Nostalgic

  Source: collider.com

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• Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

  Yoko Ono

  Pride, Years, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Feb 16, 2014

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• But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

  Garth Nix

  Adventure, Tragedy, Ifs

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Dog, Teenage, Children

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• I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

  David Levithan

  Beautiful, Stronger, Saws

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.39, Penguin

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• Nothing could have survived our life.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Our Lives

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• If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

  Michelle Sagara

  Reacting, Stills, Fairs

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.931, MIRA

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

  Zadie Smith

  Order, Said, Difficult

  Zadie Smith (2003). “The Autograph Man: A Novel”, p.329, Vintage

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• My God", he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn't sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and her triumphs over pain and her aching need to find her place. He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.

  Kim Harrison

  Beautiful, Pain, Past

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• He just wanted to hold her to him and tell her it would be okay, that she had survived and was beautiful.

  Kim Harrison

  Beautiful, Would Be, Okay

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• They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.  Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

  Guillaume Musso

  Love, Block, Years

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• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Kissing, Skins

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Fear, Drinking, Blood

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• [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. You on the other hand, armed with all the modern means of production, multiplying the productive capacity of the cave man a million times — you are incompetents and muddlers, you are unable to secure to millions even the paltry amount of bread that would sustain their physical life. You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you. 

  Jack London

  Children, Taken, Mean

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