Quotes tagged ‘Survivor’

“He still watches 'Survivor,' which is like violently straight.”

— Sarah Schneider, Chris Kelly, Cary Dubek, Drew Tarver, imdb.com

“I don't know how you still watch this show. I meant there's too many close-ups of feet with bug bites.”

— Sarah Schneider, Chris Kelly, Cary Dubek, Drew Tarver, imdb.com

“And don't you know I'm still standing better than I ever did? Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid And I'm still standing after all this time Picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind”

— Elton John, open.spotify.com

“Oh, living out the remainder of my life, in safety. If you guys were smart, you were join me. That accident made me realize that it's dangerous out there. I was the one of the lucky ones. I'm a survivor. And so I simply decided that I'm never leaving my house again.”

— Kaz, C.H. Greenblatt, Merriwether Williams, Spongebob Squarepants, Tom Kenny, imdb.com

“I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.”

— Mike Epps, successories.com

“For this sport to go on, we need to demand real change, and we need to be willing to fight for it. It’s clear now that if we leave it up to these organizations, history is likely to repeat itself. Now is the time to acknowledge that the very person who sits before us now—who perpetrated the worst ep…”

— Aly Raisman, deadspin.com

“You do realize now the women you so heartlessly abused over such a long period of time are now a force, and you are nothing.”

— Aly Raisman, deadspin.com

“What about, say, Terry Crews, who is a man who decided to break silence and that shit was major. In this culture of toxic masculinity, men speaking up about their victimhood is revolutionary.”

— Luvvie Ajayi, awesomelyluvvie.com

“I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.”

— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com

“I’m a survivor. I‘m strong because I’ve been weak. I have sharp edges because I’ve been broken.”

— Mia Asher, amazon.com

“When I took the trash out at night, I sometimes felt his eyes, tried to pretend he wasn’t the thing he claimed to be protecting me from.”

— Raven Leilani , narrativemagazine.com

“I am a motherfucking badass. I can survive anything. And I will thrive.”

— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com

“Our culture does not encourage people who cause harm to take responsibility. We have an adversarial model where the person who is actually placed on trial is the survivor.”

— Mariame Kaba, truth-out.org

“I don't actually feel overwhelmed by survivor stories. I feel overwhelmed by inaction around survivor stories.”

— Shira Hassan, truth-out.org

“Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”

— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com

“Men: It’s not our job to keep reminding you. Remind each other, and stop abusing. It’s as simple as that. Until men speak out against men who abuse, this will never stop. How about y’all post ‘I ignored it and I won’t anymore’ instead?”

— Heather Jo Flores, medium.com

“Why are we still demanding that women out themselves as survivors, again and again and again, rather than demanding that men out themselves as abusers?”

— Heather Jo Flores, medium.com

“I refuse to post this #metoo thing. Not because I haven’t been harassed and abused but because Y’ALL ALREADY KNOW that likely every woman you have ever met has dealt with this crap. It shouldn’t take some hashtag to remind you. It shouldn’t fall to the victims, again, to have to keep speaking out. I…”

— Heather Jo Flores, medium.com

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, en.wikiquote.org