Survivor Quotes - Page 15

• Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Guy, Stronger

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• What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Whole, Ifs, Universe

  "A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1756.

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• The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

  Johan Huizinga

  Hero, Titles, Fallen

  Jakob Herman Huizinga, Johan Huizinga (1969). “Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century: and other essays”

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• Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Two, Victory

  "Armstrong shows them who's boss" by Keith B. Richburg, www.sfgate.com. July 29, 2002.

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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

  Long, Kind, Disaster

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• Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Mma, Battle

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• Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know.

  Yoko Ono

  Relationship, Moved On, Problem

  "John Lennon and Yoko Ono". Playboy Interview, www.whale.to. 1980.

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• Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

  Cher

  Thinking, Holocaust, Survival

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• After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Survival, Enemy, Eighty

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• Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

  Annie Dillard

  Survival, Emergencies, Kind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.9, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Every woman who writes is a survivor.

  Tillie Olsen

  Writing, Survival

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• The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Giving Up, Men

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• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brutality, Violence, Bitterness

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Men, Land, Manhattan

  Dan Wells (2013). “Fragments (Partials, Book 2)”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm a survivor and I can handle anything. I'm very confident about that.

  Aaliyah

  Handle, I Can

  "Aaliyah: More Than a Woman" by Christopher John Farley, (p. 48), 2001.

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• The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

  Max Lerner

  Lessons, Written

  Max Lerner (1943). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”

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• I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Gone, Terrible

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• People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  People, Sept 11, Disaster

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• I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

  Mark Burnett

  Adventure, Race, Challenges

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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

  Yankees, Classroom, All Time

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• Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in competition with another Chinese-American woman writer of the same generation. A writer friend of mine calls it the "There Can Only Be One ..." syndrome. This isn't "Survivor." The more good writers, of all walks of life and all ethnicities and persuasions, the better.

  ZZ Packer

  Writing, Ethnicity, Feelings

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• You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

  Montel Williams

  Reality, Thinking, Gone Away

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

  Kathy Bates

  Cancer, Want, Way

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• The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

  Godfried Danneels

  College, June, Boston

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• What we now need to see is that human life doesn't need to be rescued from a fall that didn't happen. Human life needs to be empowered. We have to begin to see the work of God as expanding the humanity of people so that they do not have to relate to one another out of the survivor mentality of fallen people.

  John Shelby Spong

  Fall, People, Humanity

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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