Chernobyls First Responders Quotes & Sayings

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people. — Albert Einstein

You get to give. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You know what you have to do, you just can't do it", Sara says wearily. "It's like you have bricks on your feet. — Jonathan Rottenberg

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. — Tim Ferriss

You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all. — Nick Kroll

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator. — Robert Dallek

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books. — Hans Rosling

Offering to help me implies I'm in distress. I'm not currently. — Myra McEntire

During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed. So our job becomes to keep peace with enemy camps, eliminate the chaos at the end of Jacobean tragedies, and with 'the mercy of distance' write the histories. — Michael Ondaatje

We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a specially dangerous time for women. They have outlived the shyness and restraints of girlhood, and not attained to the caution and discretion of middle age. They are reckless, and consciously or unconsciously on the lookout for adventure. They see ahead of them the end of youth, and that quickens their pace. — Rose Macaulay

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. — Edward Gibbon

Because there's nothing wrong with me," Alec says. "You know what is? Our society is so screwed up from top to bottom, everything about it, that it's become impossible to fix. It's easier to change people and make them fit into something that's broken. Know what I mean? — Brian James

Life imitates art
but badly. — Edward Abbey