Adjectives Quote by Florence Nightingale Download Open image “diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.” — Florence Nightingale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adjectives Disease Illness Nouns Shows
Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal. — William Thomas Councilman Copy Share Image
Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Disease may ... be thought of as the negation of the normal. — William Thomas Councilman Copy Share Image
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Disease is not simply a manifestation of some physical process unique to the individual, but it reflects their particular lives, environment and culture.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment." — William Thomas Councilman 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 nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; ... nature alone… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs. Neither can do anything but remove obstructions; neither can cure; nature alone cures. Surgery removes the bullet out of the limb, which is an obstruction to cure, but nature heals… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is involved in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
I have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
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