Edith Cavell Quotes

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

Edith Cavell

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• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Magazine

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • More
  • Communism
  • Crusade

• I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Day
  • Crazy
  • End

• I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Government
  • Religion

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Choice
  • Consequences

• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Defense
  • Logical
  • Implement

• It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Important
  • Age
  • Matter

• A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Country
  • Home
  • Man

• For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Long
  • Women

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• I'm the only gay person my parents know.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Gay

• Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • Winning
  • Right
  • Fans

• I found it absolutely incredible that Mr. Duceppe called for a boycott of the installation as governor-general of an eminent Canadian of Haitian origin from the Quebec society, ... I was shocked to see Gilles Duceppe call for a boycott of that ceremony. ... They are Quebecers, they should be proud to see a Quebecer accede to that very important position.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Ceremony
  • Boycott
  • Quebec

• I think we're a working man's band.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Band

• We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Father
  • Today
  • Forever

• I've had problems with my eyes, and my legs hurt if I walk a great deal. That's due to very bad circulation. It's called claudication, and it's painful. So I have to stop if I'm walking, and pretending I'm looking in the window, so that I can rest them a little bit and then start off again.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Stop

• Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.

  

  Edith Cavell
  • People
  • Hurt