Axdals Quotes & Sayings

No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous. — John Herschel

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. — Chris Patten

(Florence) Nightingale's passion for statistics enabled her to persuade the government of the importance of a whole series of health reforms. for example, many people had argued that training nurses was a waste of time, because patients cared for by trained nurses actually had a higher mortality rate than those treated by untrained staff. Nightingale, however, pointed out that this was only because more serious cases were being sent to those wards with trained nurses. If the intention is to compare the results from two groups, then it is essential to assign patients randomly to the two groups. Sure enough, when Nightingale set up trials in which patients were randomly assigned to trained and untrained nurses, it became clear that the cohort of patients treated by trained nurses fared much better than their counterparts in wards with untrained nurses. — Simon Singh

How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them! — Agatha Christie

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. — Keanu Reeves

A good attitude, a positive perspective, a smiling face, a strong laugh are all highly contagious. Why not start spreading them? — Charles F. Glassman

She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained.
"Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together.
"It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect. — Ally Carter

The bigger our vision for the world, the less personal worries we have. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Are ya waiting for an invitation? Getchya self in. I ain't gonna scare ya. — Waheed Ibne Musa

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. — Simone Weil

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth. — Plato