Geoffrey Fisher Quotes

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

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• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • Create
  • Relationships

• Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Strength

• I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Real
  • Reality

• I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Man
  • Nice

• To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Trying
  • First
  • Example

• Film has always been where my heart is.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Heart
  • Film
  • Where

• What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Time
  • Inspire

• Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids, and I can get into the mind of a kid. In my brain, I consider myself the ultimate video game player. The ultimate snack maker.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Game

• I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Child

• I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Real
  • Animal
  • Animals

• My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Chance
  • Year
  • New Years

• 'Summon up a supper,' he said. 'Oh, I could. On golden plates, if you like. But that’s illusion, and when you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up

• Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all. Wolf. just Wolf, tis what he is. D'ye wonder he's well named?

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Wonder

• I looked like this when I was young, and I still do.

  

  Yogi Berra

• I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

  

  Matt Damon

• In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

  

  Jim Hunt
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Depression

• The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Spiritual

• When I first started touring, we had a crappy van, and we would all share rooms. So for many years as a grown adult woman, I would share a bed with a bandmate, whether it would be Jimmy Tamborello from the Postal Service or Pierre De Reeder from Rilo Kiley, just a pillow barrier between us sleeping on the same bed.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Service

• My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

  

  Geoffrey Fisher