Best Survivors Sayings
153 Survivors quotes by 137 unique authors
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The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
— Johan Huizinga
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The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
— Ernest Hemingway
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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
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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
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After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.
— David Ben-Gurion
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Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from themselves…
— Beverly Engel
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Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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…
— Dan Wells
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The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow…
— Matthew Henry
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Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
— Bertrand Russell
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Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.
— Lena Dunham
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When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill me,…
— Loung Ung
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Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here,…
— David Duke
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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
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We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk…
— Glenn Close
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People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.
— Geraldine Ferraro
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In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking…
— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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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
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The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
— Colin Farrell
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Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame…
— Mary Norris
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For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.
— Earl A Grollman
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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