Survived Quotes - Page 18

• He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

  Lisa Kleypas

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• Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. “Try me and see.” “Maybe later, after I’ve survived Michaela.

  Nalini Singh

  Trying, Savages, Pearls

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.177, Penguin

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• A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Dying, Doe

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

  Carrie Fisher

  Ashamed, Ill, Better Me

  "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com.

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• Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Iraq, Voting

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  My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

  Bono

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.

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• 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

  Winning, Years, Survival

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• I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

  Jeff Bridges

  Being Happy, Party, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Laughter, Real, Hero

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• After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

  Graydon Carter

  Country, Wall, Culture

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• She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

  Melissa Marr

  Night, What Matters, Together

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• now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

  Erin Hunter

  Punishment, Died, Knows

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• What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Taken, Mourning, Faces

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.19, South End Press

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• We are powerful because we have survived

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.139, Crossing Press

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• The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

  James Buchan

  Fall, Doubt, World

  "Market failures" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.

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• In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

  Peter Garrett

  Stars, People, Patterns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

  Jeff Bridges

  News, Good News

  "The Dude will see you now" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2003.

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• Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

  Karen Russell

  Brother, Dad, War

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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• When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

  Maya Angelou

  Encounters, Hell, Persons

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• I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

  Eric Clapton

  Crazy, Grateful, Thinking

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Interesting, Long, Mars

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• In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

  Diane Ackerman

  Dog, Horse, Cat

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• I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

  Brownie McGhee

  New York, Years, Ukulele

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• As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

  Diane Ackerman

  War, Ice, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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