Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

Minds like beds always made up,(more stony than a shore)unwilling or unable.

Michael Watson

My hope is that there will be consideration given to psychiatric beds in the new hospital.

Nurses play a unique and central role in our health care system, and we need to unite and empower nurses to speak out. Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves because of low pay and working conditions.

Nurses are leaving the bedside in droves. We have more and more large employers. We can't solve problems at a local level.

Now, that might not necessarily mean that there are 40 open slots. The beds are spread throughout the men's, women's and family wings. So it just depends on who comes in.

Mary Roach

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.

Louise Brown

I have a large pile of novels on my bedside table, and I look at them frequently, promising myself that I will find the time to read them.

Sylvia Earle

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?

P. J. O'Rourke

Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

We need fewer buildings and fewer beds to make sure we don't spread the quality too thin.

Kenneth Oppel

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

Patrick Patterson

We're full with women and children. We have two beds open on the mind's side.

We're in desperate need of beds right now. We have more inmates than we've ever had -- it's an all-time high.

John Carmichael

The process of showing how many heads on beds the dollars bring in will be a little difficult, since we won't have full-year figures.

We have handled numerous trauma cases from Harrison County because the emergency departments in several of the Harrison County hospitals are not open to trauma every night. We have had extremely high patient census at Ocean Springs Hospital for the last several months, including these extra trauma cases, which points out how much the beds are needed.

Mark Peters

What we're facing is wanting to do what's right for the community, but opening beds means increasing losses.

We've seen the end of the changing of the beds for a considerable period because it isn't cheap.

I think the home meet will be good for this team. Our kids are going to be able to sleep in their own beds and not have to be worried about waking up at 6 a.m. to travel.

I think the biggest difference is the guys will be sleeping in their own beds and eating (home) cooking, so we won't be worried about that. Hopefully we'll have good crowds and hopefully most of them are cheering for us, so I think it's going to be an advantage.

Rose George

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

We're opening beds as fast as we can in the physical space that we have now.

Jandy Nelson

I am insanely superstitious. All the woman in my family are, beginning with my grandmother, who would leave red ribbons under the beds and taught us how to find four-leaf clovers.

George Orwell

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Republicans sleep in twin beds - some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats.

JIAS helped us find our way when we got here, bought us our beds and mattresses, which we really appreciated.

Princess Diana

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold peoples hands, people used to be shocked because theyd never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Greg Nickels

I will propose more money so we have the same number of beds or maybe a few more. I believe I can promise that,

Abraham Verghese

I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.

Abraham Verghese

You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

Even though we're grateful for those initiatives that have been put in place, we still haven't had the problem addressed which is really nursing at the bedside and direct patient care, which is still compromised despite these initiatives.

A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet of flowers bought once a year.

The transition beds are expected to make some difference.