"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."

-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Discovery Quotes #Two Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Never despair. [Nil desperandum.]”
“Caring is the essence of nursing.”

Source : Jean Watson (1999). “Nursing: Human Science and Human Care : a Theory of Nursing”, p.33, Jones & Bartlett Learning
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”

Source : Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books
“My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.”
“The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.”
“Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you realize you can open it up a bit more. You know you're at one with yourself and the environment. You're a little more alive than before you started.”
“Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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