Sick Quotes - Page 14

• The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Desire

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.48, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Should Have, Nurse

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• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Bed, Disease

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

  William Howard Taft

  Politics, Politician

  "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt". Book by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son how to ski, and my wife supports them and my wife has some issues. What, you just dismiss them? You just walk away? I don't walk away from anyone, Bill, in life! I'm sitting here and support people that are down and out! All these rich and elitist people, I'm sick of them! I'm sick of them! No, they're perfect. They don't do nothing! Get outta here! 'They don't do nothing!' They're the biggest crooks around!

  Rob Ford

  Daughter, Teaching, Kids

  "Reporter's notebook: In the heart of Ford Nation with Toronto's embattled mayor". Interview with Bill Weir, www.cnn.com. November 18, 2013.

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• I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death, it becomes jingoism. People are drinking, dancing in the street, chanting USA like they’re at the World Cup, like they won it… It’s sick that we turned it into a sporting event.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Drinking, Jumping

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• Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

  Charles Barkley

  Conservative, Stomach

  "CNN Invites Charles Barkley to Trash Conservative 'Fake Christians'". Article by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. February 17, 2008.

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• Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

  Guy Fieri

  Numbers, Talking, Hated

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• If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Class, Connections, Shapes

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• A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Cutting, Waiting

  "Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict". Book by William S. Burroughs (published under the pseudonym William Lee), 1953.

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• There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.

  Winona Ryder

  Home, Looks, Almonds

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• I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if youre just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

  Jane Curtin

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• Having children takes the focus off yourself, which I'm really grateful for. I'm so tired of thinking about myself. I'm sick of myself. You feel you want to be there and not miss out on anything. It's a true joy and a very profound love. You can write a book, you can make a movie, you can paint a painting, but having kids is the most extraordinary thing I've ever taken on.

  Brad Pitt

  Children, Book, Love You

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

  Walter Slezak

  Tired, Years, People

  "Return of the Portable Curmudgeon" edited by Jon Winokur, (p. 290), 1995.

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• High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.

  Eugene Mirman

  Girl, Pain, Father

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• I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

  Tyrone Power

  Knights, Play, Shining

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Cancer, Lying, People

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• I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

  John Hurt

  Order, Play, Six Months

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• I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Baby, Morning

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• Ever eat so much you feel sick? Isn't that the best?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Feels

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• I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.

  Robert Shaw

  Writing, Thinking, Want Something

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• I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

  Kate Winslet

  Mother, Baby, Morning

  "Perfecting the illusion" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

  Javier Bardem

  Block, Kids, Speak English

  "Javier Bardem Comes Across" by Rene Rodriguez, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2000.

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• Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

  Patrick Swayze

  Point Break, Sense Of Humor

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine

  James Lafferty

  Senior, Cutting, Hair

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