"Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them."

-- Owen Feltham

#Nurse Quotes #Promise Quotes #May Quotes

“I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.”

Source : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.”
“Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.”
“I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.”
“Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.”
“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”
“The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.”
“The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.”

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