Florence Nightingale Quotes

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Florence Nightingale

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
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• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Ideas
  • Become
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• I have never had personal debt and never will.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor
  • Scared
  • Vacation

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
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• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Star
  • First
  • Week

• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
  • People
  • Great
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• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Life
  • Death
  • Progress

• I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Need

• Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Moving
  • Strategy
  • Israel

• The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Difference
  • Between
  • Deepest

• I'm not hard to get along with.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Hard
  • Get
  • Along

• For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

  

  Eduardo Saverin
  • Life
  • Help
  • Charity

• Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Good

• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

• It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Speak