Survived Quotes - Page 6

• It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.

  Eddie O'Sullivan

  Team, Fire, Hair

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Brother, Moving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.48, Macmillan

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• It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

  Paul Newman

  Careers, Smoking, Waking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldnt be here today if it were not for the NHS, I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

  Stephen Hawking

  Nhs, Quality, Today

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• If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

  Michelle Sagara

  Reacting, Stills, Fairs

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra Vol 3: Cast in Chaos\Cast in Ruin\Cast in Peril”, p.931, MIRA

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• We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.

  Nora Roberts

  Done, Blank, Slate

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.853, Penguin

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• Nothing could have survived our life.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Our Lives

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• I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

  David Levithan

  Beautiful, Stronger, Saws

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.39, Penguin

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• You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

  Paulo Coelho

  Battle, Might, Lost

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• Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Should, Ought

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• Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, July

  "The Full Text: Malala Yousafzai Delivers Defiant Riposte to Taliban Militants With Speech to the Un General Assembly". www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• What the creeping crud is that?" [Percy] demanded. "You’re inside a giant glowing chicken-man!" "Hawk!" I yelled. I decided that if I survived this day I would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They’d probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Glowing, Guy

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• We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

  David Levithan

  Art, Giving, Role Models

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.113, Egmont UK

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• At least he had Annabeth. They would find a way out of Tartarus. They had to. He didn't think much of fates and prophecies, but he did believe in one thing: Annabeth and he were supposed to be together. They hadn't survived so much just to get killed now.

  Rick Riordan

  Believe, Fate, Thinking

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.80, Penguin UK

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• The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  School, Odds, Long

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.443, A&C Black

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• A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Unimportant Things, Causes

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.85, Bantam

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• Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Change, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Humility, Animal

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Mean, Acceptance, Science

  "God and Evolution". The New York Times, February 26, 1922.

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• Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mountain, Meat, Village

  Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wit And Wisdom Of Discworld”, p.24, Random House

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• There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Men, Tablets

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• I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Practice, Circumcision

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

  Garth Nix

  Adventure, Tragedy, Ifs

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #3: Drowned Wednesday”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Dog, Teenage, Children

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