Florence Nightingale Quotes

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Florence Nightingale

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• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • School
  • Fun
  • High

• I never really learned photography.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Learned

• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Change
  • Care
  • Gender

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• Elves are cool, man.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Elves

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Training
  • Eating

• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Religion
  • Without

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Want
  • Never
  • Results

• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• I watch action movies, and you don't remember when Jason Statham does a kick or punch. It's character trait stuff you remember.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Action

• Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Time

• It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who still look like they're in the '60s.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • World
  • Fun

• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Life
  • World
  • Interesting

• A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Die
  • Struggle