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Florence Quotes & Sayings

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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it. — Florence Nightingale

I can stand out the war with any man. — Florence Nightingale

Anger without power is folly. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it. — Florence Scovel Shinn

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. — Florence Nightingale

Unless we are making progress in our nursing every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back. — Florence Nightingale

I have only one real hobby - my husband. — Florence Harding

In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.
And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family. — Chris Bohjalian

Before ye call I shall answer." This means that "every good and perfect gift" is already man's awaiting his recognition. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence, — Adam Nicolson

I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay. — Florence Scovel Shinn

And worry are twins and are the same thing. If — Florence Scovel Shinn

The Divine Plan unfolds through following intuition. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and mentally defective that you will marry anybody. — Florence King

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose. — Florence Nightingale

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer — Florence Nightingale

if you run away your problems will run after you. Be undisturbed by a situation, and it will fall away of its own weight. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The years pass so quickly now that I can't keep my mental image of myself up to date. [Mature Dotsy deals with her age] — Maria Hudgins

Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone. — Florence Nightingale

Live life one moment at a time, or else risk missing everything entirely. — J.B. Florence

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. — Florence Nightingale

The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ. — Florence Nightingale

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. — Florence King

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime. — Florence King

Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means. — Florence King

Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt. — Florence King

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. — Florence King

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants. — Florence Henderson

So we see man's work is ever with himself. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I look with wonder at that which is before me. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I can see the green light
I can see it in your eyes — Florence Welch

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing. — Florence Nightingale

That belongs to her by divine right. I told her to repeat it continually also. — Florence Scovel Shinn

No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. — Elinor Florence

I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you. — Florence Welch

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Spinsterhood is Nature's Own Feminism. — Florence King

Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding. — Florence King

There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard. — Dan Florence

I wish to remain nameless
And live without shame
'Cause what's in a name, Oh
I still remain the same — Florence Welch

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong. — Florence Welch

Isaiah said, "My word shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that where it is sent. — Florence Scovel Shinn

She'd fallen for him. How stupid. Secretary falls in love with her boss. What a tepid thing to do. — Beate Boeker

Never second guess yourself. Or do, maybe. Whatever you feel good about. — Dan Florence

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It's such a funny, grandiose idea — Florence Welch

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage. — Florence L. Barclay

Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones — Florence Welch

Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels. — Tyler Florence

Carlina with her cat-like eyes who didn't fit into any category he knew. (Commissario Garini's difficulty with his prime suspect.) — Beate Boeker

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be. — Christopher Pike

I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right. — Florence Welch

I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat. — Florence King

At Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned — Niccolo Machiavelli

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair. — Florence Griffith Joyner

I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz. — Florence Welch

Human milk is like ice cream, penicillin, and the drug ecstasy all wrapped up in two pretty packages. — Florence Williams

Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty. — Florence Nightingale

The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush. — Florence Littauer

Florence exists to educate our memory. — Glenn Haybittle

I find however, this will not "work" when man has advanced spiritually and — Florence Scovel Shinn

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt. — Florence King

When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important. — Florence Welch

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. — Florence Nightingale

We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good. — Florence Scovel Shinn

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill. — Florence Welch

Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned. — Florence King

Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. — Florence Nightingale

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood. — Florence Fabricant

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells. — Florence King

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. — Florence King

I use the word nursing for want of a better. — Florence Nightingale

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better. — Florence Nightingale

I like being unconventional. — Florence Griffith Joyner

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side. — Florence Griffith Joyner

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more. — Florence Welch

You live and you learn. — Florence Welch

All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three. — Florence Welch

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew! — Adam Sandler

Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him? — Susan Meissner

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself. — Florence Scovel Shinn

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. — Florence Scovel Shinn

You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.' — Florence Welch

They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in. — Mark Twain

I am not yet worthy; and I will live to deserve to be called a Trained Nurse. — Florence Nightingale

Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water - freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive. — Florence Scovel Shinn

I must strive to see only God in my friends, and God in my cats. — Florence Nightingale

Through enjoyment we endure. — Florence Ditlow

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music. — Florence Welch

That one with God is a majority. — Florence Scovel Shinn

The historian in me love to uncover things, and the mother in me hates to be lied to...[Why Dotsy investigates murder] — Maria Hudgins

If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that. — Florence Welch

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. — Florence King

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive. — Florence Prag Kahn

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people. — Florence Welch

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful. — Florence Welch

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady. — Florence King

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper. — Florence King