Karen Silkwood Quotes & Sayings

We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity. — Carl F. H. Henry

Waking up hurt. Waking up never hurt before. — Joey Gumb

What bothers me is this idea of validation, of rationalization. The notion that some of us (regardless of what we tell ourselves) are doing this because we are not sure what else to do and it's easy to apply to and it will pay us decently and it will make us feel like we're still successful. — Marina Keegan

He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: "For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer." He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. — Robert G. Ingersoll

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances. — Bonnie Blair

No one understood the value of something that was measured with a different standard than they themselves measured by. Matthew was thought to be worthless because he did not communicate how everyone did. My father thought me worthless because I did not have the same business sense that he and my brother were born with. — Sarah Holman

I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern. — Roderick Haig-Brown

As years and experiences add up and life begins to wear us down, it's easy for the vibrancy of our passion and purpose to fade ... Never let your best days be behind you. In my mind, they're always ahead. — Shawn Anderson

But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust. — Anthony Doerr

Fear is essential for courage. — John F. Murray

No one can do the learning for you. — Lailah Gifty Akita