Ann Perkins Nurse Quotes & Sayings

She swears you can make it stop by forgiving and moving forward. I'm moving forward, but I'll never forgive. — Carrie Ryan

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine. — Elton John

My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No. — Carol Bartz

On a few words of what is real in the world
I nourish myself. I defend myself against
Whatever remains. — Wallace Stevens

Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy's wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference." Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future. — Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now. — Joanna Russ

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ. — John Piper

When I came to 'Gourmet,' I had no clue how to run a magazine; for television, I am fascinated to learn about editing. — Ruth Reichl

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. — Theodore Roosevelt

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. — Rumi

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us. — Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother. — Frederick Douglass

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him. — Robert Jordan

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are. — Tom Cullen

I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myself, but I really wish she could know. It's like when she does it, it's all I can see and I want more of it. Especially after the day we've had. I always want her making happy faces. — Melyssa Winchester