International Nurses Day Quotes & Sayings

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes. — Wally Lamb

It was too long ago; she couldn't recall the feelings of love, only remember that she'd had them. A dried-out memory, like a flower pressed between the pages of a book. — Sarah Painter

The baby dove into the room, transforming grotesquely as it landed on the floorin a deft sumersault — Brandon Mull

A reader of The Unspeakables recently contacted me. She said she had become so engrossed with the paperback she'd taken it to the top of a Munro whilst climbing on the Isle of Mull. I'm delighted to have three-dimensional circulation as well. — Peter F. Jemison

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans. — Vin Scully

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. — Paulo Coelho

Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom. — Eckhart Tolle

If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ... — Tad Williams

I just want to die, says Mr. K, and have everything be happy and painless. Forever. — Chuck Palahniuk

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. — Jean Genet

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done. — Tamala Jones

Love is a timeless commodity, and it's as universal as the air we breathe. — Moffat Machingura

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably. — Richard Russo

B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.'
'Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Go home and go to bed and take some hot lemonade and put on three blankets and sweat it out.'
'But Mr J-Jimson, there must be artists.'
'Yes, and lunatics and lepers, but why go and live in an asylum before you're sent for? If you find life a bit dull at home,' I said, 'and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dynamite in the kitchen fire, or shoot a policeman. Volunteer for a test pilot, or dive off Tower Bridge with five bob's worth of roman candles in each pocket. You'd get twice the fun at about one-tenth of the risk. — Joyce Cary