Survived Quotes - Page 19

• As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.

  Catherine Mayer

  Senior, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• You know, Qhuinn's an interesting character." Saxton reached out with an elegant hand and picked up his port. "He's one of my favorite cousins, actually. His nonconformity is admirable and he's survived things that would crush a lesser male. Don't know that being in love with him would be easy, however." Blay didn't go near that one. "So do you come here often?" Saxton laughed, his pale eyes glinting, "Not for discussion, huh.

  J.R. Ward

  Crush, Cousin, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.263, Penguin

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• We have a complete respect for history, we respect the experiences of other countries and we have our own, but the truth is that if the Cuban revolution had not been a democracy it would not have survived.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Democracy, Revolution

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• No, you've got it all wrong, John." Reading his emotions, she shook her head. "You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.

  J.R. Ward

  Reading, Males, Done

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• A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fashion, Book, Successful

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.586, e-artnow

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• Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Scar, Horror, Memento

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.22, Random House

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• Don’t yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Near Death, Near Death Experience

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• Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

  John Fowles

  Thinking, Feelings, Wonderful

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking - it's based on her book about their relationship.That's what the film will be about - they were both incredible, strong, willful individuals and I feel like that Stephen Hawking himself would say that he wouldn't have survived without the influence of Jane Hawking, and they were an incredible team together.

  Felicity Jones

  Strong, Team, Book

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• But then, his revenge had been more direct. He’d hunted down the ones who’d killed his sister and nephew – those who’d survived his mother’s attack – and he’d made them wish they’d never been born with nerve endings.' (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Revenge, Nephew

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.440, Macmillan

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• Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin

  Tamora Pierce

  Excitement, Goddess, Bless

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• I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

  Yann Martel

  Months, Illusion, Week

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated the potential of a nation that has lived under an iron handed blockade and permanent aggression including state sponsored terrorism and yet has survived. In the new circumstances we have the absolute conviction that we will move forward even more than we already have.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Moving, Iron, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within a year, the Eisenhower administration secretly, but formally, decided to overthrow the government. Then came the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Kennedy administration was furious about the failure of the invasion and immediately launched a major terrorist war and economic war that got harsher through the years. Under these conditions it is kind of amazing that Cuba survived.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Florida, Government

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love-everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires'-it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, Passion

  FaceBook post by Christopher McDougall from Jan 17, 2013

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• ...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.

  Dan Brown

  Religious, Mean, Evil

  "The Lost Symbol". Ch. 6. Book by Dan Brown, 2009.

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• Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain, they, like us, could not have survived as a species. Their nervous systems, like ours, secrete opiate-like, pain-dampening biochemicals in response to pain.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Opiates, Able

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."

  Paul Watson

  Thinking, Legacy, Species

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• There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Space, Mass Extinction, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, I think people wanted some closure to the story about the fate of the royal couple's only child who survived the gruesome Temple Prison. I know I did.

  Susan Nagel

  Couple, Children, Heart

  Source: teaattrianon.blogspot.com

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• I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.

  Emily Saliers

  Mother, Hurt, Grief

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Jesus, Names

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne on Common Prayer". www.readthespirit.com. 2012.

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• I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.

  Denis Leary

  Art, Stars, People

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.

  Gerald Nicosia

  Mom, Hero, Book

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• I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

  Ian MacKaye

  Years, Culture, Violence

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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