#viva

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#carelessness #keep #needed #people #revival

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#been #beginning #beings #human #human beings

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying. ↗

— George Ball

#contribute #goes #israel #longer #prosperity

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. ↗

— Grace Paley

#fittest #good #interest #life #necessary

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#death #emotion #great #only #survival

... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?” “Those are brave words, Tiresias.” “New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie. ↗

— Joe McKinney

#survival #zombie-apocalypse #change

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#country #everyone #guarantee #national #survival

If you dont speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a way to get what you know out of you. Believe me, they'll get everything out, Willie. Don't have any qualms about it -- make your story good and make it believable. Silence won't work!" This was an expert giving me the best advice she could. From that point on, I worked hard not to remember the people I loved, to try instead to create another life, a false life...I tried to become a person concerned only with very simple things -- and scared. I tried to become the woman I needed to be in order to live. ↗

— Diet Eman

#identity #survival #diet

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#had #health #high #i #loved