Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Elizabeth Kenny

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

Desmond Tutu

True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

Desmond Tutu

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

Desmond Tutu

When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

Clara Barton

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Clara Barton

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

Clara Barton

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Janie Schumaker

This was a staff-implemented project. Three of our staff nurses championed the change; they did the training of the rest of the staff.

William Shakespeare

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

Edmund Spenser

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Archie Panjabi

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.

Daniel Handler

Hal is on his way." The nurse announced reentering the room.

William Shakespeare

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

Kristie Baker

She never contacted the office or the nurse to find out if someone was actually picking him up.

Paul Kirchhof

millionaire and a nurse would be taxed the same. It is unfair.

Ricky Gervais

I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"

Darren Shan

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.

David Miliband

Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick

Dave Barry

It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick

Cary Fukunaga

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

Jane Austen

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

Jason Clarke

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

Jane Wagner

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

Alan Watts

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.