Nurse Quotes - Page 6

To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.

When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

Took flowers from a hearse, romanced a nurse. Put the girl asleep, then I went through her purse.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.