Edith Cavell Quotes

Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

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• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Integrity

• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Fall
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Philosophy

• I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Movie
  • Director
  • Disney

• Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Know

• I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Life
  • Time
  • True

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Dream

• My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Kids
  • College

• When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Water

• There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Human
  • Grace

• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Book
  • Place
  • Map

• Travelling expands the mind rarely.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Travelling

• Awards are for young people. They just are.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Young
  • Awards

• A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Great
  • Song

• People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

  

  Muhammad Iqbal
  • Thinking
  • Literature
  • Process

• I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.

  

  Finn Jones
  • War
  • Game
  • Fire

• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Age

• Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

  

  William H. Ginsburg
  • Given
  • Would
  • Telling

• Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

  

  Edith Cavell
  • Would
  • Physical
  • Impossibility