In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“She was someone who heard each grain in the hour-glass, she felt the passing seconds like sandpaper against her softest skin. Time… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
“If the promised final future is simply that immortal souls will have left behind their mortal bodies, why then death still rules… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Remember, loving them is the powerful foundation for influencing those you want to help. ... As a companion to that love, trust… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt,… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more. — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
