Povinelli And Vonk Quotes & Sayings

Red Ash mine was also the location of a disaster in 1900, which killed forty-six miners. This earlier catastrophe outraged Mother Jones, who spoke of it often on her organizing campaign that year, and it had triggered public pressure to improve the state's mine safety laws. The legislature rejected all proposals for reform, however. The lawmakers apparently agreed with West Virginia's Republican governor, G. W. Atkinson, who said in 1901: "It is but the natural course of mining events that men should be injured and killed by accidents. — James R. Green

No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind. But if it lay before us, and we could watch its current approaching from a long distance, what could we do with it before it had reached the now? In like wise a man thinks foolishly who imagines he could have done this and that with his own character and development, if he had but known this and that in time. — George MacDonald

To see and hear and write brave things. — Oscar Wilde

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success. — Shania Twain

But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. — Shelley Hitz

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us. All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture ... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs. — Loretta Lux

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late. — Charles Kingsley