#viv

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#alternatives #destiny #future #into #leads

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#aids #cancer #cured #disease #dreaded

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. ↗

— John Cusack

#before #brooks #citizen #citizen kane #classic

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#debts #dollars #economy #entire #entity

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

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#dog #every #every man #fewer #mad

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. ↗

— Angela Davis

#country #during #early #grew #how

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else. ↗

— Bette Davis

#because #else #i #survived #than

Now it is time to make historic reassessments in order to transform our region into one of stability, freedom, prosperity, cultural revival and co-existence. In this new regional order there should be less violence and fewer barriers between countries, societies and sects. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#between #countries #cultural #fewer #freedom

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#environment #exists #form #god #high