Survivor Quotes - Page 13

• Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

  Rachel Vincent

  Justice, Vengeance, Victim

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Shift”, p.126, MIRA

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• You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Names, Legs

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• Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.

  Lionel Richie

  Struggle, Years, Parent

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• I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.

  Lee Daniels

  Father, Hero, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

  Daniel Barenboim

  People, Holocaust, Imagine

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, School, Humor

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• After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do not go to the Christian heaven?" He was told that that would indeed be the worst of his punishments: that he would most assuredly not go to Heaven. At which, his smile sent a thrill of horror through every soul of the Court.

  Gary Jennings

  Christian, Mean, Punishment

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• I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Cancer, Grateful

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• I don't mind being called tough, since I find in this racket it's the tough guys who lead the survivors.

  Curtis LeMay

  Military, Guy, Mind

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• Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Character, Angel, Men

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• Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

  Ani DiFranco

  Heartless, Chalk, Hard

  Song: Not A Pretty Girl Complete Album, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

  Joel Shepherd

  Mistake, Men, Space

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• Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

  Robert Graves

  War, Complaining, Cash

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• We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

  Leslie Moonves

  Football, Thinking, Games

  "CBS Chief isn't worried about Youtube or Google — 'as long as we get paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• I don't know if anything can really prepare you for 'Survivor,' but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.

  Ethan Zohn

  Athlete, Grew Up, Aspect

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• I don't think 'Survivor' really changed me.

  Ethan Zohn

  Thinking, Changed

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• The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

  Alexander Suvorov

  War, Church, Praying

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• The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Real, Animal

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

  Dick Clark

  Rejects You, Music Business, Rejects

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• Don't call me crazy.I'm a survivor. I do what I have to do to survive.

  Steig Larsson

  Crazy, Call Me, Call Me Crazy

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• There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings.

  Charlie Higson

  Kids, Boys, Feelings

  Charlie Higson (2009). “The Enemy”, p.26, Penguin UK

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• If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fighting, Wind

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• This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.

  W. G. Sebald

  Perspective, Falsification, Stills

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.

  Marissa Meyer

  Labels, Looks, Rotting

  Marissa Meyer (2012). “Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles Book 1)”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna

  Sister Souljah

  Caring, Sky, Breathing

  Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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