Survived Quotes - Page 20

• I have also Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I wouldn't have survived that if not for music. So I think for me, music was a soothing thing and it was also a place where you could say all the stuff that you couldn't say anywhere else.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Stress, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• Concerning the common currency: today, the euro is not worth it for Poland. The reason why we survived the financial and economic crisis quite well is that we have a national currency. This will not change in the near future.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Today, Reason Why, Common

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies. Journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived.

  Isaac Asimov

  Artist, Sea, Cities

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• When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

  Al Gore

  Action, Kind, Threat

  Interview with Andrea Mitchell, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• But his pantheon would have survived. (Kat) Would it? Fate is never that simple. It doesn’t go in a straight line, and the more you try to circumvent it, the worse you make it on yourself. Fate will not be denied. Sin would have lost his powers by another means, at another time and place. And whoever took them then might have killed him. Had he died, the world would have ended a long time ago or the gallu would have run free and taken over. There are infinite possibilities. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Taken, Mean

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• You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

  John Green

  Hipster, Unrequited Love, Way

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.30, Penguin

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• The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Childhood, Littles, Information

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.49, Faber & Faber

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• There were definitely parts of my character I didn’t approve of, and maybe from time to time I had moments when I didn’t like myself much. But I got through each day as it came to me, and so far I’d survived every thing life had thrown at me. I could only hope that the survival was worth the price I’d paid.

  Charlaine Harris

  Character, Survival, Each Day

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• I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.

  Yann Martel

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Heart

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

  Frank McCourt

  Childhood, Catholic, Ordinary

  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir ch. 1 (1996)

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• She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

  Nora Roberts

  Eye, Like Love, Tragedy

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• While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

  Julian Assange

  Adversity, Loss, Fire

  "'We Believe in What We're Doing'". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. September 30, 2016.

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• I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.

  Donnis

  Way, Downfall, Ready

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along.

  Tommy Chong

  Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I had a great deal of trouble focusing. My two - I had three children, and the two that survived - boys - were very badly injured. I did my job. I didn't miss the votes. I showed up. But I just could hardly wait to get home.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, Children, Home

  "On Becoming Joe Biden". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 1, 2007.

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• Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.

  Koushun Takami

  School, Class, Years

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• I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

  Chuck Wepner

  Marine, Boxing, Ifs

  "Chuck Wepner". ipfs.io.

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• My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

  Arabella Weir

  Friendship, Mother, Cancer

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• We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy that we had not been hit ourselves. Of course, I tell myself in quiet moments today: 'You've killed. In order to protect others and not be killed yourself.' But in the end: for what? The Third Reich trained 30,000 pilots. Ten thousand survived the war. One-third. This is the highest loss rate along with the U-boat sailors.

  Gunther Rall

  War, Loss, Thinking

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• You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Recovery, Abuse, Emotional Abuse

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• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  Samantha Morton

  Catholicism, Huge

  "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

  Marilu Henner

  Play, Names, Brown

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• People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hard Times, People

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• I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

  Mike Caro

  Tests, Test Of Time

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• I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.

  Sean Astin

  Taken, Journey, Wings

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