Survived Quotes - Page 14

• I have a fierce eating disorder that has survived even bariatric surgery. I got even fatter after that! Hey, maybe fat people are just trying to get closer to others, did anybody ever that of that?!

  Roseanne Barr

  People, Eating Disorder, Trying

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Taken, Men

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stress, Childhood, Resilience

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• I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.

  Eve Ensler

  Reality, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Voice, Long

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• In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...

  Thom Yorke

  Car, Radiohead, Airbags

  "Song: Airbag (OK Computer)". March 24, 1998.

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• Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Skills, Survival

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• The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Husband, Ties

  "Estefan: Cuba won't be free until Fidel dead". "Boston Herald" Newspaper, March 12, 2008.

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• Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

  Albert Camus

  God, Night, Order

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• I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

  Liya Kebede

  Mom, Care, Might

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• But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

  Hank Green

  Bullying, Jobs, Hands

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• I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

  Channing Tatum

  Grandpa, One Day, Burning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

  R. D. Laing

  Hero, Medusa, Benefits

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• I think the reason I've survived that long is because I've taken my work so seriously. Maybe sometimes too seriously, but it's always been important for me to do my best regardless of the film. I think the biggest compliment I get is when people on the street stop me and say they've liked the choices I've made.

  Matt Dillon

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  "Best Is Yet to Come, Says Actor Matt Dillon". The Daily Oklahoman, May 02, 1997.

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• All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Dad, War, Son

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

  Steven Morrissey

  Endurance, Twenties, Tests

  "Q" Magazine Interview, 1995.

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• Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

  Boyle Roche

  Father, Men, Brave

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• The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!

  Sean Hannity

  Powerful, Party, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

  TobyMac

  Thinking, Proud, These Days

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• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Government, Dwelling, Half

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• Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Littles, Captains

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.328

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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

  Jojo Moyes

  World, Want, Might

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• Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

  Todd Akin

  Race, Homosexual Marriage, Civilization

  "4 Crazy Gay Marriage Predictions That Never Came True". Interview with Jessie Kissinger, www.esquire.com. February 11, 2014.

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