Survived Quotes - Page 18

• No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

  Lester R. Brown

  Civilization, Support Systems, Growth

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• If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue, and of honour.

  Edward Gibbon

  Loss, Rome, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.42

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• There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

  Mike Huckabee

  Mean, Civilization, Marriage And Family

  "Is This Guy For Real?". Interview with Ross Douthat, www.gq.com. December 2, 2007.

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• I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through sex. I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.

  Tori Amos

  Sex, Night, Years

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• It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what links us to the dead. At all times we can hear them calling to us, a growing incredulity in their voices, You will not forget me -- will you? How can you forget me? I have no one but you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Voice, Guilt, Calling

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• Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Men, Years

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• Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

  John Shimkus

  Historical, Borders, Armenia

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• There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Laughing, Guilt, Trying

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• And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Experts, Way, Motto

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1000, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

  Issey Miyake

  Bombs, Want, Designer

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• If you're smart you're just gonna be all about the work. But as a young person, you want to going out to clubs and doing all the stuff. I'm just glad I survived it.

  Christian Bale

  Smart, Going Out, Clubs

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• I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

  Richard Branson

  Stars, Lucky, Balloons

  "Richard Branson Responds To Elon Musk's Criticism; 'We're About To Prove Him Wrong'". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

  Jo Nesbo

  Revenge, Animal, Men

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• I just pinch myself, because I think if theres anything I can be proud of, Ive survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

  TobyMac

  Thinking, Proud, These Days

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• The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

  Abraham Verghese

  Suicide, Cancer, People

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Couple, Emotional

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

  Hank Green

  Bullying, Jobs, Hands

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• Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

  Bruce Schneier

  Real, Successful, Air

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• As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.

  Andrew Lam

  Sadness, America, Stories

  Andrew Lam (2010). “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres”, p.133, Heyday

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• I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

  Jojo Moyes

  World, Want, Might

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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Littles, Captains

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.328

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• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Government, Dwelling, Half

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• The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Taken, Men

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Voice, Long

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