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Florence Nightingale Quotes

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: english
Birth: May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910

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Selfish Lazy More Martyr Rather

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

John Bright

Great Depression Great Depression Bad

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

Joel Coen

Character Fun You Say Way Invention

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

John Doerr

Technology Age Community People More

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

John Fleming

Vote Way Conservative Republican Who

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

Michael Douglas

Behavior You Understand Director His

There is still so much room for me to get better. Everyone in this sport evolves so quickly. You could take six months off and come back to a totally different game. That's why I'm always in the gym working. Even if I don't have a fight lined up, I'm still in there working to improve my overall game.

Stipe Miocic

Fight Me Game Better You Gym

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Steve Martin

Love Broken Love Is Promise

An anonymous person, which is 99 percent of the people on Twitter, can say my face looks like a foot or I'm Ted Cruz's doppelganger. That doesn't affect me.

Miles Teller

People Me Face Looks Person Say

I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.

Dolores O'Riordan

Love Live I Am Trying Now Kids

I think what I reacted to so strongly when I first saw 'Pinocchio' was that I identified with the character so strongly. The movie takes you on a whole journey, a rollercoaster of emotions, and that sometimes means some very scary places. But in the end, it comes out okay.

Chris Buck

Character Journey Think End You

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.

Brian Ferneyhough

True Write Poem Just Still Easier

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.

Pihla Viitala

People Easy Him Europe Working He