"The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses."

-- James Whistler

#Class Quotes #Two Quotes #Nurse Quotes

“It's like saying that two and two equals four, but if you wish to believe it, it could also be five ... Evolution is not a theory; it is a fact, every bit as much as the historical fact that William the Conqueror landed in 1066.”
“If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die.”
“There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.”
“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”
“When you're through changing, you're through.”
“And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”

Source : "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.
“The glory of God is the human person fully alive.”
“How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”

Source : Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage

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