Art And Science Of Nursing Quotes & Sayings

Tonight - I am alone in the night,
a homeless and sleepless nun!
Tonight I hold all the keys to this
the only capital city
and lack of sleep guides me on my path.
You are so lovely, my dusky Kremlin!
Tonight I put my lips to the breast
of the whole round and warring earth.
Now I feel hair - like fur - standing on end:
the stifling winds blow straight into my soul.
Tonight I feel compassion for everyone,
those who are pitied, along with those who are kissed. — Marina Tsvetaeva

I left Aerospace because I wanted to go build, and put spacecraft together. — Gwynne Shotwell

When you join this club as a young player you know you've got a mountain to climb to get yourself into the first team.
(on Manchester United) — Gary Neville

What determined the outcome of a life? A series of random events you had no control over, or did some cosmic gravity pull everything in the direction it was predestined to go? — Jo Nesbo

God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us. — F.B. Meyer

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside. — Khalil Gibran

Reading works of literature is about "entering fully into the opinions, and therefore also the attitudes, feelings, and total experience" of other people.[96] To read literature is thus to open us up to new ideas, or to force us to revisit those we once believed we were right to reject. — Alister E. McGrath

Northerners, even abolitionists, knew more about how and why to chop down the slavery tree than they ever knew what to do with its sour fruit. — Jane Smiley

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle. — Charles A. Murray

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison. — Ovid

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it? — Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped. — Jane Hamilton

[Holy ridicule] does not mock the serious things of life, but rather people who take themselves too seriously--not God, but man's ecclesiastical idols; not God's word, but man's interpretation of that Word; not the faith once delivered to the saints, but the sometimes silly caperings of those saints. — Harry Boonstra

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household. — Mahatma Gandhi