Survivor quotes
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I’m a survivor, and I can handle anything. I’m very confident about that.
-- Aaliyah -
I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.
-- Aida Turturro -
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
-- Albert Brooks -
The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.
-- Alexander Suvorov -
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I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
-- Amy Tan -
Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.
-- Annie Dillard -
The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.
-- Bear Grylls -
Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.
-- Bob Iger -
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I am a survivor of domestic violence,
-- Brooke Axtell -
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
-- Chinua Achebe -
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
-- Chris Bohjalian -
...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had their fur blown off.
-- Christopher Moore -
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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
-- Claire Cameron -
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
-- Colin Farrell -
Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They'll have a known holocaust denier debating a holocaust survivor.
-- Craig Rosebraugh -
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I'm a survivalist and a survivor.
-- Creed Bratton -
Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.
-- Dan Wells -
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
-- Dave Pelzer -
After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
-- David Ben-Gurion -
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I don't think there was any overall Reich policy to kill the Jews. If there was, they would have been killed and there would not be now so many millions of survivors. And believe me, I am glad for every survivor that there was.
-- David Irving -
And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz -
I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.
-- Dick Clark -
Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.
-- Drew Barrymore -
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For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
-- Earl A Grollman -
Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
-- Eddie Bracken -
Jephthah called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, 'Let me cross over,' the men of Gilead asked him, 'Are you an Ephraimite?' If he replied, 'No,' they said, 'All right, say Shibboleth.' If he said, 'Sibboleth,' because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Fourty-thousand were killed at the time.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
-- Elie Wiesel -
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You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt -
I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.
-- Erika Slezak -
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 -
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I don't think 'Survivor' really changed me.
-- Ethan Zohn -
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
-- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon -
I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived,
-- Gennifer Flowers -
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
-- George Stigler -
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People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.
-- Glenn Close -
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
-- Grete Waitz -
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I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.
-- Grete Waitz -
I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.
-- Helen Bevington -
The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least the atomic bomb survivors, to strive in good faith for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and to advance towards the complete abolishment of all such weapons.
-- Iccho Itoh -
By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
-- James Buchan -
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I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!
-- Jane Wiedlin -
I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.
-- Jean-Claude Izzo -
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.
-- Jeff Probst -
Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.
-- Jeff Probst -
I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.
-- Jeff Probst -
In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.
-- Jeff Probst -
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I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
-- Jim Kaat -
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
-- Johan Huizinga -
. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.
-- John Boyne -
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
-- John Quincy Adams -
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The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
-- Jonathan Sacks -
Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out...
-- Jordan Sonnenblick -
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.
-- Judith Lewis Herman -
I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
-- Kathy Bates -
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I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.
-- Kathy Griffin -
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
-- Keith Moon -
This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.
-- Kofi Annan -
Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
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Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.
-- Laura Davies -
Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
-- Laurence Gonzales -
A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.
-- Lee Tergesen -
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Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.
-- Lena Dunham -
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson -
This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.
-- Marie Osmond -
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The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things.
-- Martha Gellhorn -
When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.
-- Martin Filler -
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.
-- Mary Ann Mobley -
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
-- Mary Ann Shaffer -
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
-- Mary Ritter Beard -
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
-- Max Lerner -
My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
-- Michael C. Hall -
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Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.
-- Michael Shurtleff -
A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
-- Natalie Wood -
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
-- Nina Bawden -
I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.
-- Olivia Newton-John -
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Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified...
-- Patricia Briggs -
Survivors can't always choose their methods.
-- Patricia Briggs -
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim.
-- Patricia Buckley -
If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
-- Patrick Ness -
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It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.
-- Regina Brett -
I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.
-- Ric Flair -
It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
-- Richard Leakey -
There will always be survivors.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
-- Robert Fulghum -
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 -
Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.
-- Robert Jay Lifton -
I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
-- Rue McClanahan -
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Being the survivor stinks.
-- Sara Gruen -
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
-- Saul Williams -
If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
-- Scott Pelley -
