Survived Quotes - Page 22

• I’d love to be faster. Physically I’m limited, but I’ve survived by using my head.

  Xavi

  Faster

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• If you’re listening to this, congratulations! You survived Doomsday. I’d like to apologize straightaway for any inconvenience the end of the world may have caused you. The earthquakes, rebellions, riots,tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the giant snake who swallowed the sun—I’m afraid most of that was our fault. Carter and I decided we should at least explain how it happened.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Earthquakes, Snakes

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Sadie Kane here. If you're listening to this, congratulations, you survived doomsday.

  Rick Riordan

  Congratulations, Listening, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Illium grinned, unrepentant. “Want to try again? I’ll move extra slow — you are both so much older, after all.” The last words were a conspiratorial whisper. Galen glanced at Raphael. “How has he survived this long?” “No one can catch him.

  Nalini Singh

  Moving, Long, Trying

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Flight: A Guild Hunter Collection”, p.216, Penguin

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• I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I’ve survived everything I’ve had to so far. I’m still standing here.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Views, World

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.124, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet. I have survived the beginning, bloom, and death of countless enemies, civilizations, and people. And the one truth I have learned most during all of these centuries is the old Japanese proverb. If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Revenge, Men, Civilization

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• She’d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasn’t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia had kept her head down, instead of standing up like Mouse. She’d looked out for herself, first. And because of that, she’d survived.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Cities, Flying, Example

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• The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

  Milton Friedman

  Important, Liberty, Affluence

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• The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

  Robert Jordan

  Adversity, Wind, Broken

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• If I’d stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don’t think I would have survived high school.

  Susane Colasanti

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.96, Penguin

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• She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Said

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• Yes, you make yourself useful, angel boy. Meanwhile, I’ll be in the bathroom.” William’s jet-black hair was dripping wet and plastered to his face. There was a fluffy white towel wrapped around his waist, displaying muscles that rivaled Paris’s own, and a tattooed treasure map that led to his man junk. Looking at his, you could see the makings of a temper so savage anyone who miraculously survived an encounter with him would end up needing therapy. And diapers. “I’ve got to finish deep conditioning my hair.” Or maybe not so savage.

  Gena Showalter

  Angel, Boys, Men

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction”, p.1075, Harlequin

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• I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.

  Anne Lamott

  Memories, Writing, Worry

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• This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Adventure, Vegas, Hair

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• I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Simplicity, Missing

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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• I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Eye, Men, Storm

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One”, p.444, Hachette UK

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• Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.

  Mark Millar

  Dream, Dark, Men

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• What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

  Gregory Maguire

  Memories, Real, Heart

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• You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

  Richard Dawkins

  Character, Men, Inference

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.24, Oxford University Press

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• Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse.

  Barbara Mertz

  Heart, Past, Issues

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• If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Feelings, Ifs

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• In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Heart, Warrior, Will To Survive

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• I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

  George Soros

  Money, Mistake, Wealth

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• The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.

  Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

  Memories, History, Challenges

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