Survivor Quotes · Page 5

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

— Scott Pelley

“Childhood abuse is the misuse of power and control which leads to wrong.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor”

— Vignesh S

I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch 'Survivor' every week.

— Adam Scott

“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

— Imre Kertész

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

— Jeff Probst

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

— Geraldine Ferraro

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

— Patti Smith

Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the…

— Pope John Paul II

“If a child is abused by a family member, most likely they blame themselves for the integral act of abuse than those…

— Patricia Dsouza

“When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice. We can choose to be taken by the evil. Or…

— Elizabeth Smart

There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade…

— AnnaLynne McCord

I have truly moved beyond my victimization. I do not think of myself as a victim. I don't think of myself as…

— Stephanie Davis

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis.…

— Greg Louganis

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for…

— Hilda Solis

When they picked the people for 'Survivor,' they wanted 15 fouled-up people and one normal person. I was the normal person, in…

— Rudy Boesch

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant…

— William Howard Taft

One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us…

— M. F. K. Fisher

I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about…

— Amy Schumer

“Our world is not safe. It is a toxic swamp populated by predators and parasites. The odds are stacked against us from…

— J.K. Franko

The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to…

— Warren Farrell

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This is a job and Survivor is a game show. So, this is something to take seriously and work really hard at.

— Colleen Haskell

I'm actually a survivor of throat cancer so I'm very, very careful with my voice.

— Michael Buffer

“Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so…

— Geoff Ryman

“An educated survivor can, and will, guard against future abuse.”

— Shannon Thomas

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

— Joan Baez

“He wasn’t raising a child with dreams for her future. He was raising a survivor. - Cori”

— E.R. Arroyo

...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...

— Rachel Vincent

“She was a beautiful dreamer who had survived the ugliest nightmares.”

— Mishi McCoy

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

— Daniel Barenboim

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

— Seal

I'm a survivor. I did whatever I had to to put food in my belly. For a while, stealing fed me.

— Mike Perry

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

— Yann Martel

“I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.”

— Erica Cook

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

— Jodi Picoult

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon