Survived Quotes - Page 19

• I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

  Yann Martel

  Months, Illusion, Week

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.

  Koushun Takami

  School, Class, Years

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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 came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.

  Sean Astin

  Taken, Journey, Wings

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• I've seen the future, and I survived the test of time.

  Mike Caro

  Tests, Test Of Time

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• People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hard Times, People

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• I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

  Marilu Henner

  Play, Names, Brown

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• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  Samantha Morton

  Catholicism, Huge

  "Samantha Morton: 'I could play a prostitute convincingly because my best friend was one'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Recovery, Abuse, Emotional Abuse

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• We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air, and particularly happy that we had not been hit ourselves. Of course, I tell myself in quiet moments today: 'You've killed. In order to protect others and not be killed yourself.' But in the end: for what? The Third Reich trained 30,000 pilots. Ten thousand survived the war. One-third. This is the highest loss rate along with the U-boat sailors.

  Gunther Rall

  War, Loss, Thinking

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• I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Odds, Stories, Extraordinary

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

  Arabella Weir

  Friendship, Mother, Cancer

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• So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know

  Bob Geldof

  Hair, Holding On, Wells

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• The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Hero, Evil, Sides

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• Somewhere in between all the mind games, lies and seduction...I fell for you. Somewhere in between all the broken promises, manipulation and heartaches...I got over you. But, I guess I fibbed a few times too. Remember all those times I swore I needed you? Well consider them lies because baby, here I am without you, and I survived.

  Lil Wayne

  Baby, Lying, Here I Am

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• Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

  Don King

  Men, Jail, Boxing

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• Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

  Thom Yorke

  Facts, Awful, Faces

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• I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. [...] There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.

  Cat Power

  War, Mistake, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.   The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Government, Black

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• Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

  Richard Branson

  Risk, Groups, Essentials

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

  Adoniram Judson

  Suffering, Missionary, Trials

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• However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

  Richard Ernst

  Book, Home, Hands

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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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• 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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