Survivor Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  Topics, Size, Method

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Believe, Heart, Mind

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

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• I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

  Heidi Klum

  Littles, Little Things, Instinct

  "Heidi Klum: A Supermodel's Secrets to a Sizzling Marriage". Interview with Holly Hays, www.sfgate.com. August 06, 2010.

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• I think a Celebrity Survivor would be great.

  Kathy Griffin

  Thinking, Would Be

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• 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

  Men, Together, Jordan

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• I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you just do. So many people have been abused, it's not rare, it's a very common human experience, and we survive. Also, my music plays a big role in my thriving. Having an outlet, it really makes a difference.

  India.Arie

  Mother, Strong, Play

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

  Jim Ramstad

  Compassion, People, Relief

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• For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. Ive been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

  John Barrasso

  Cancer, Years, Medicine

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• I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

  Bob Feller

  Hero, Home, Thinking

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• I've learned there are a lot of people that don't want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn't fit their other beliefs and so they deny it and it makes them sleep better at night to do so. But it makes the Holocaust survivors sleep better at night to know that we've given them a voice.

  Steven Spielberg

  Believe, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be ageing - I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am ageing - lucky, lucky me!

  Sharon Stone

  Gratitude, Grateful, Years

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• Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

  Sue Grafton

  Lucky, Firsts, Endure

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• I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund. I am also a parent, grandparent, and a doting pet owner.

  Thelma Jones

  Cancer, Grandparent, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.

  Joe Biden

  Boston, Speak, Bombing

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• There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Sex, Organization, Support

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Children, Real, Home

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• Ever since Steve Bannon was demoted, and drama started playing out between Bannon and Jared Kushner and the firing of Comey and "Is he going to get impeached?" we have been trapped in a classic Survivor reality TV show, like, "Who's going to get voted off the island?" And this has every single news show enjoying ratings never seen before. And it physically pains them to talk about the stakes of this administration, whether it's health care or climate change or the deregulation of the financial sector or social security. None of it can compete with this reality show.

  Naomi Klein

  Pain, Drama, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive.

  Charles Fort

  Names, Stupidity, Survival

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.23, Penguin

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• I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.

  Richard Stallman

  Lasts, Culture, World

  "Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 19, 2010.

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• We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that a character feels a strong desire - and nature is the place where creatures act on their desires in the most pure way imaginable, so maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I'm interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Strong, Character, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Source: www.lasplash.com

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• My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and his life and history were very formative to myself and my family. The almost unimaginable dichotomy between the different eras of his life always crushed my brain on some level. That this guy who was shoveling carob chips out of a barrel and restocking yogurt popsicles could also have those numbers on his arm. It was an inconceivable juxtaposition. His experience was the main window for our family into any kind of social consciousness, or sense of history, or politics, even though a lot of it went unsaid.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Holocaust, Guy, Brain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm connected to the event of 9/11 by my desire to do something to honor the 9/11 survivors and those who didn't survive. Something that moves our society forward, something that engages children in what it means to be a citizen and encourages them to love and be inclusive. Because if we don't live our lives well - if I don't live my life well - it's an affront to all the people who were involved in the tragedy of 9/11.

  Jewell Parker Rhodes

  Children, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they shouldn't be that hero that stands out.

  Peter Weir

  Hero, People, Standing Out

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Our whole goal is really to create a culture of accountability. Because for a very long time, ending sexual assault has been on the backs of survivors. And it's really up to everyone to be part of the solution. It's really about not creating a culture of awareness. It's something I often tell parents of kids who are going off to college: It's about asking those hard questions when your kids are applying to school and encouraging them to ask about their rights, to ask about their resources.

  Andrea Pino

  School, Kids, College

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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