Top 100 Jennifer Worth Quotes
#2. I was not the only young nurse to be acutely conscious of a heightened sex appeal when in uniform. Ironically, the draconian old sisters and matrons who rigidly enforced the uniform seemed to be unaware of the effect it had on the male sex.
Jennifer Worth
#3. No matter how perfect our circumstances, most of us, as Adam Phillips observed, "learn to live somewhere between the lives we have and the lives we would like." The hard part is to make peace with that misty zone and to recognize that no life - no life worth living anyway - is free of constraints.
Jennifer Senior
#4. The Arum are nothing more than what a human would call a parasite. They are not worth the filthy floor you lie upon.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#5. Pause and remember - Life is a process of surrendering. Make the decision to let go of what no longer serves you or makes you feel good. Know that you are worth more and something better will arrive once you create the space.
Jennifer Young
#6. If God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have consequence for the whole of life.
Jennifer Worth
#7. We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their love, sweat and tears on it.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#8. For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet - there is such a thing as a perfect day.
Jennifer Niven
#9. Today, antibiotics are as common as a cup of coffee. In the 1950s they were relatively new. Today, over-use has reduced their efficacy but in the 1950s they really were a miracle drug. Sister Monica Joan had never had penicillin before, and responded immediately.
Jennifer Worth
#10. Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.
Jennifer Worth
#11. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse.
Jennifer Worth
#12. I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.
Jennifer Worth
#13. I sighed. Sometimes, killing people just wasn't worth cleaning up the mess afterward.
Jennifer Estep
#14. Perhaps, in a few people, I have seen what can be described as a struggle with death, and it can be distressing to behold. But for the vast majority of people death is gentle, tender.
Jennifer Worth
#15. Everyone's bad at relationships until you find the relationship worth fighting for.
Jennifer Ashley
#16. There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith. But if it makes us brave, the label doesn't matter ... for it's the thing that frees us, to embrace life itself.
Jennifer Worth
#17. There is not a single dying human being who does not yearn for love, touch, understanding, and whose heart does not break from the withdrawal of those who should be drawing near.
Jennifer Worth
#18. Well, it certainly is for men, because large numbers of men living together can easily become like wild animals. Men are brutes at heart, and without the civilising influence of women they quickly revert to savagery.
Jennifer Worth
#19. Well, I don't really eat cereal that much because on Weight Watchers it's not worth the points.
Jennifer Hudson
#20. Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.
Jennifer Worth
#21. I'm of the mind anything worth a damn in life, anything fun and joyous, will always be complicated. If it's easy, it's probably not exactly worth it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#22. You didn't want Mather to have the bowls, and you didn't want him to have me." He stared a moment. Then he leaned to her, suddenly fierce. "When I saw you, I knew I had to take you away from him. He had no idea what you were worth, just like he can't price the damn bowls. He's a philistine.
Jennifer Ashley
#23. If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.
Jennifer James
#24. When is there ever a right time to fully give your heart to another? There are always going to be obstacles. You just have to decide which ones are worth it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#25. Exciting wasn't turning out obe as easy as she'd thought it would be, but it was definitely worth pursuing.
Jennifer Crusie
#27. I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.
Jennifer Worth
#28. Quite suddenly, with blinding insight, the secret of their blissful marriage was revealed to me. She couldn't speak a word of English and he couldn't speak a word of Spanish.
Jennifer Worth
#29. I did not regard it as a moral issue, but as a medical issue. A minority of women will always want an abortion. Therefore it must be done properly.
Jennifer Worth
#30. You know the secret of life, my dear, because you know how to love.
Jennifer Worth
#31. He who loves knows it. He who loves not, knows it not.
I pity him and make him no answer.
Jennifer Worth
#32. All nuns, by the very fact of their monastic profession, are exceptional people. No ordinary woman could live such a life. There must inevitably be something, or many things, that are outstanding about a nun.
Jennifer Worth
#33. They [soldiers WWII] were so young, so very young. A whole generation of young men died, leaving a whole generation of young women to weep.
Jennifer Worth
#34. The knowledge of rejection, of being unwanted, is more terrible to live with than anything else, and a rejected child will usually never get over it.
Jennifer Worth
#35. Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.
Jennifer Worth
#36. Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.
Jennifer Worth
#37. ...Our Lord's words to Peter, as recorded in St. John's gospel: 'When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go.'...I have always thought that it is a general reflection about us all.
Jennifer Worth
#38. Come on, Gypsy girl. I'm bleeding to death here, in case you haven't noticed. At least make it worth my while and kiss me before I die.
Jennifer Estep
#39. I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate. And the days when joy was delirious.
Jennifer Worth
#40. Sometimes the point isn't to end up with something worth showing the world. Sometimes it's just rehearsal.
Jennifer Weiner
#41. But life is made of happiness and tragedy in equal proportions, and we will never change that.
Jennifer Worth
#42. I bet I could've done a week's worth of laundry on his stomach. Probably would be a heck of a lot more fun way to wash clothes.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#43. God loves greatly those whom he requires to suffer greatly.
Jennifer Worth
#44. Years professed nun, nurse and midwife in the East
Jennifer Worth
#45. My father not only broke her heart, he pretty much shat all over her pride and self-worth.
Jennifer Niven
#46. A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.
Jennifer Brown
#47. The guinea earned by doctors for a delivery was a significant part of their income. The threat of being undercut by trained midwives had to be resisted.
Jennifer Worth
#48. No man is worth the pain you're putting yourself through. Don't wither away because of someone who is beneath you.
Jennifer Foor
#49. She knew the risk. We both did. I'm glad that she was taken first, and not left on her own. Death is kinder than life. There is no more suffering beyond the grave. We will meet again soon, I hope.
Jennifer Worth
#50. By the way? For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet - there is such a thing as a Ariana Grande day.
Jennifer Niven
#51. This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.
Jennifer Weiner
#52. Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.
Jennifer Worth
#53. Circumstances bring people together, and take them apart. One cannot keep up with everyone in a lifetime.
Jennifer Worth
#54. It did not occur to me at the time that her radiance had a spiritual dimension, owing nothing to the values of the temporal world.
Jennifer Worth
#55. Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself
Jennifer Worth
#56. God isn't in the event;
God is in the results after the event. He is in the love and concern and caring.
Jennifer Worth
#57. Handling a dead body is not a repugnant or frightening experience and, somehow, it helps to accept the fact that the soul of that person has gone if you treat the body with reverence and respect before it is finally disposed of by cremation or burial.
Jennifer Worth
#58. And I want us to be happy again." "You already said that." "Yeah," she said, "but I figure it's worth repeating." "Well, it must be working," he said, tightening his arms around her. "I don't know about you, but I feel about a million times happier already.
Jennifer E. Smith
#59. You cannot understand what you have not experienced.
Jennifer Worth
#60. You're right. I do want everything. I'm sorry that's too much to ask, but I believe we're both worth it. I'm sorry you don't.
Jennifer Probst
#63. Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.
Jennifer Worth
#64. That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.
Jennifer Worth
#65. Why aren't midwives the heroines of society that they should be? Why do they have such a low profile? They ought to be lauded to the skies, by everyone.
Jennifer Worth
#66. Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones, with awe and reverence, as you would in a cathedral. Let not the mind engage in trivial thoughts. The awesome majesty of Death can only be met in silence.
Jennifer Worth
#67. I want a years-worth of seconds and minutes with you. I want a decade's worth of hours, so many that I can't add them up.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#69. In large groups of enclosed people who were not allowed out, infectious diseases spread like wildfire. For example, in the 1880s in a workhouse in Kent, it was found that in a child population of one hundred and fifty-four, only three children did not have tuberculosis.
Jennifer Worth
#70. Look, man. Nothing worth having comes easy. You gotta fight for what you want in this life. You taught me that. Just thought you might need a reminder.
Jennifer Bonds
#71. Inanimate objects have a life of their own, especially when they are the daily companions of a living soul. Without that life, they take on a bleak, desolate appearance, like furniture piled up in a warehouse.
Jennifer Worth
#72. Inevitably, if you see a person daily in his own home over several months, you will cease to regard him as a patient and come to know him as a person.
Jennifer Worth
#73. We must all commit Sister Monica Joan to our prayers. We must seek God's help. But I will also engage a good lawyer." I
Jennifer Worth
#74. No one can give you faith. It is a gift from God alone. Seek and ye shall find. Read the Gospels. There is no other way.
Jennifer Worth
#75. Is that your professional take on the situation? I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn't worth yelling over. It wasn't even worth a heated whisper.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#76. You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura.
Jennifer Pierre
#77. What woman worthy of the name Mother would stand on a high moral platform about selling her body if her child were dying of hunger and exposure? Not I.
Jennifer Worth
#78. Illegitimate children can be left money, but they can't inherit the peerage."
"You wouldn't want it," Cameron put in. "More trouble than it's worth. And for God's sake, don't murder Hart or I'm next.
Jennifer Ashley
#79. Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.
Jennifer Worth
#80. Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!
Jennifer Worth
#81. I would not have described myself as a committed atheist for whom all spirituality was nonsense, but as an agnostic in whom large areas of doubt and uncertainty resided.
Jennifer Worth
#82. Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.
Jennifer Worth
#83. Everything could come to a crashing end for us if we were caught, but it didn't matter. Right now, being with him seemed worth whatever consequence could come from it. This was right, like it was meant to be. There was no logical explanation for it.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#84. I risked my life for you. So don't you ever again disrespect the risks I took by claiming you weren't worth it!
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#85. The young can be very lovely, but the faces of the old can be truly beautiful. Every line and fold, every contour and wrinkle of Sister Monica Joan's fine white skin revealed her character, strength, courage, humanity and irrepressible humour.
Jennifer Worth
#86. Sister Evangelina had plenty of homespun advice to offer her patients: "Where-ere you be, let your wind go free", to which the reply was always chanted: "In Church and Chapel let it rattle".
Jennifer Worth
#87. A steady spray of mist silently soaks my fooyball jersey, an irritating rain we locals call spit. Not worth the trouble of opening an umbrella. Not worth spit. Kind of like me.
Jennifer Hotes
#88. Her constant phrase, "Go with God", had puzzled me a good deal. Suddenly it became clear. It was a revelation - acceptance. It filled me with joy. Accept life, the world, Spirit, God, call it what you will, and all else will follow.
Jennifer Worth
#89. Something was nagging at me that I was trying to resist. Was it then or was it later that the thought came to me: if God really does exist, and is not just a myth, it must have a consequence for the whole of life. It was not a comfortable thought.
Jennifer Worth
#90. To have entered a strange house, and to have consumed the best part of a cake without the knowledge or consent of the lawful owners, was a solecism worthy of severe retribution.
Jennifer Worth
#91. Somentimes challenging and different and risky is what makes life worth living.
Jennifer Archer
#92. So, like Jane Austen, who in all her writing never recorded a conversation between two men alone, because as a woman she could not know what exclusively male conversation would be like, I cannot record much about the men of Poplar, beyond superficial observation.
Jennifer Worth
#94. That isn't about money, fame, or power. It's about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can't buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.
Jennifer Hudson
#95. Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#96. The Lord grant us a quiet night and a perfect end.
Jennifer Worth
#97. Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only ... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching for, even if that search took a lifetime.
Jennifer Worth
#98. When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go.
Jennifer Worth
#99. I promise you, anybody given the choice of that kind of money or having to make a phone call to tell your dad that something like that has happened, it's not worth it.
Jennifer Lawrence
#100. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.
Jennifer DeLucy
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