Florence Nightingale Quotes

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Florence Nightingale

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• I spend my own money, not other people's money.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Money
  • My Own

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Celebrity
  • Pretend
  • Commercial

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Always

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• I've always dreamed of having a large family.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Always
  • Large Family

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the minute it had been raised.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • Gold

• Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

  

  Jim Rogers
  • Money

• The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Man
  • Feels
  • Occurs

• There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Live
  • Experience

• Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Great
  • Women

• Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Sympathy