Florence Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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