Florence Nightingale Quotes
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.Florence Nightingale
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
Warren Ellis -
The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
Ofra Strauss -
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens -
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
Zooey Deschanel
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
Sam Heughan -
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece -
All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
Wale -
I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
Olivia Munn -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
Camille Paglia
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz -
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
Olivier Theyskens -
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
Zinedine Zidane -
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Maggie Gallagher -
On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
Saint Patrick
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Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.
Pamela Druckerman -
Fashion starts with fashionable people.
Halston -
Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
C.P. Cavafy -
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
Donald Miller -
There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.
Carrie Fisher -
The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
Florence Nightingale