Dudes 1987 Quotes & Sayings

women were considered instinctual nurses in this generation - the field had received exciting publicity during the Spanish-American War when an Army Nursing Corps had served overseas in the Philippines. Clara Weeks-Shaw, the author of a popular textbook on nursing, promoted the field as "a new activity for women - congenial, honorable and remunerative and with permanent value to them in the common experience of domestic life."3 In readable language, Weeks-Shaw presented nursing as an artful balance between self-reliance and submission. Overall its practices were an extension of maternity, requiring the classic female behaviors of cheerfulness (to the patients) and obedience (to the doctors). "Never leave a doctor alone with a gynecology patient except at his request," went one injunction. — Jean H. Baker

In sexual love we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of another's body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure through the intermediary of an idea we have. The onanist may be an abject creature but in truth he is the logical expression of the lover. He is the only one who neither diguises nor deludes himself. — Pessoa, Fernando

I take every possible side. — Tom Stoppard

What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well. — Michael Aspel

What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency. — Paul Singer

As his editor put it, Yeah, it's a piece of shit, but it's good shit. — Margaret Atwood

In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can use your experiences, your knowledge, and your fantasy, to put colors into black and white. — Anders Petersen

The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic. — Jami Gertz

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself. — Evagrius Ponticus

An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration. — Kenneth G. Mills

Dear Mom and Dad, Leave $50,000 in a bag under the bridge on Decatur Street. If there is no bridge on Decatur Street, please build one. — Woody Allen

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd. — Mick Jagger