#survivor

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #survival #survivor #life

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets ↗

— Dean Koontz

#money

I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#angry #i #i am #survivor #victim

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese people #destroy #nothing #people #relentless

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. ↗

— James Buchan

#compound #devastated #disruption #foreign #foreign aid

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#day #even #family #family business #just

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

#always #before #cable #called #did

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#deeply #enough #felt #first #first world

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 to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors. ↗

— Glenn Close

#been #books #camp #camps #detailing

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

#also #boston #college #conference #crash