Sick Rooms Quotes

#1. I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

Damon Galgut

#2. It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.

Larry McMurtry

#3. I would love to be in a Jimmy McGovern drama on TV, but there is no way he would ever ask me unless it would be to play a lawyer or something.

Toby Stephens

#4. From the second Edmund burst into the ceremony, she'd no longer wanted to be a duchess.
She just wanted Edmund.
Seeing his face had been like being flooded with magic. He was sunshine and sultry nights.
Laughter and sensuous kisses. The other half of her heart.

Erica Ridley

#5. Right or not, you're pissing me the fuck off.

Maya Banks

#6. Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

Frank Herbert

#7. In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

Florence Nightingale

#8. I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

Steven Novella

#10. The truth begins where trust ends.

Ivan Yelkin

#11. I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.

Will Barnet

#12. Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

Richard E. Besser

#13. In all her life, her heart had never heart like this.
Never.

Veronica Rossi

#14. I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

Mother Teresa

#15. A sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.

Emily Dickinson

#16. Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.

Alton Brown

#17. It isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#18. It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#19. I love books," I said.

Jason Luke

#20. A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

Frank Herbert

#21. I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

Rigoberto Gonzalez

#22. We thank Him for everything before we ask Him for anything!

Steven Furtick