Skillsplus Competency Quotes & Sayings

Friendship, a dear balm...
A smile among dark frowns: a beloved light: A solitude, a refuge, a delight. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest. — Ralph Regula

For the body at best
Is a bundle of aches,
Longing for rest;
It cries when it wakes. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else. — Emma Forrest

Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope. — Clive Barker

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. — Karl Kraus

The words consent of the governed have become an empty phrase. Our textbooks on political science and economics are obsolete. Our nation has been hijacked by oligarchs, corporations, and a narrow, selfish, political, and economic elite, a small and privileged group that governs, and often steals, on behalf of moneyed interests. This elite, in the name of patriotism and democracy, in the name of all the values that were once part of the American system and defined the Protestant work ethic, has systematically destroyed our manufacturing sector, looted the treasury, corrupted our democracy, and trashed the financial system. During this plundering we remained passive, mesmerized by the enticing shadows on the wall, assured our tickets to success, prosperity, and happiness were waiting around the corner. — Chris Hedges