#alive

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#gandhi #i #john #john lennon #king

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. ↗

— Li Ka Shing

#centuries #continuity #future #greatest #greatest strength

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur. ↗

— Robert Crandall

#brothers #lay #off #today #were

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#define #eaten #fantasies #i #into

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#disease #keep #people #silly #terrible

I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on. ↗

— Jason Dohring

#alive #feel #going #i #like

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#alive #did #done #fits #i

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up. ↗

— Kevin Powers

#death #fighting #giving-up #death

Normally, to decide whether we are alive we do not look outside of ourselves to find out if we are nourishing and generating life. We look into ourselves to find out how strong and healthy and vital we are. But the notion of the seed that dies demands an extraordinary redirection of the sense of life. Now to know if anyone is alive, we do not look at them; look beyond them to the mode of their expenditures and the life that they nourish and preserve beyond themselves. ↗

— Arthur C. McGill

#life #death

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me. ↗

— Henry Fox

#alive #am #calls #dead #delighted