#viv

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bring #charity #denied #did #door

I think she looked at Vivien the same way. Of course you can. You know. And, and yet with great respect, because she knew how hard it must have been. And that it was even harder for him, of course, than for her. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#been #course #even #great #great respect

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#able #actual #amazed #any #became

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed. ↗

— Francis Maude

#days #god-given #god-given right #great #known

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about. ↗

— Rollo May

#care #comes #good #good life #life

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive. ↗

— Wendell Mayes

#destroy #even #indecision #run #survive

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow! ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#day #dignity #fully #lives #longer

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest. ↗

— John McCarthy

#experiences #institution #often #survival

An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. ↗

— John McCarthy

#believes #even #extreme #his #humanity

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#america #because #came #clothes #community