Merwick Nursing Quotes

#1. Always remember, kind words are free, and yet, they are often priceless.

Charline Ratcliff

#2. That ought to make his face, or the sound of his voice, more precious to her mind, but strangely, this wasn't so. What was left in his absence was an empty, sorrowful discomfort. She wondered if it wouldn't eventually grow dull or dim if she worried at it enough, or softened and more

Cherie Priest

#3. An old dog barks not in vain.

George Herbert

#4. Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)

Tom Waits

#5. The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

Rob Hopkins

#6. The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.

Charles Bukowski

#8. When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of change. For a people is always in the making or unmaking.

Paulina Ochoa Espejo

#9. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Thomas Sowell

#10. Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#11. I know who I want to be and I want you by my side as I become that person.

Katie McGarry

#12. There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Errol Morris

#13. You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen ... Only the victors can be merciful.

Joe Abercrombie

#14. You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

Beth Lewis