Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Ignore him," Heather begged. "I do. Constantly." Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. "Every man in… — Kerrelyn Sparks Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Being a Daddy is priority number one. When you are old and facing oblivion in a nursing home or a hospital or… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
When I think about all the patients and their loved ones that I have worked with over the years, I know most… — Donna Wilk Cardillo Copy Share Image
Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches,… — Hildegard Peplau Copy Share Image
There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn't… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Charley talking to Cookie ‘'You know those women in nursing homes that have to be restrained around the clock because they mix… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Without direction, the respiratory technician goes to the head of the bed. She takes the tubing, attaches it to the oxygen, and… — Ruth McLeod-Kearns Copy Share Image
By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
“Most FAUers were fascinated by China but, as cultural outsiders, they were largely unprepared for the constant readjustments required by Convoy life.… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted… — Eve Hewson Copy Share Image
Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We… — Langdon Smith Copy Share Image
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
“Hospice deploys nurses, doctors, chaplains, and social workers to help people with a fatal illness have the fullest possible lives right now—much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“For many nurses, especially those raised and educated in the Quaker faith, serving in the China Convoy epitomized the ideal nursing practice… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
Humans are born, small, weak and helpless. That's why we have family. And the elders of the family are the honoured guardians… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering:… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Entitlements is not sic the issue. And if so, cool heads can sit down and engage the American people and tell us… — Sheila Jackson Lee Copy Share Image
My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
