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Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not

“There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman.”

“You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.”

Book Three Forget Healing Cases Taken Four Minutes Ten Doctors Sick Dollars Medicine Medical Physicians Lectures Dissection

Book:FRESH LEAVES

Source: FRESH LEAVES

“Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.”

Might Sex Can Do Hours Minutes Seven Rounds Skiing Good Sex

Author:Spalding Gray

“About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.'”

Said Eye Games Half Minutes Goes On Balls Down And Caught Nfl Fists Flew Chuck Weber

Author:Chuck Bednarik

“Be more attentive to what successful people have to say about all the opportunity around you. Anything important - which takes only two minutes to point out - will exceed most people's attention span by at least a minute and a half. Learn to pay attention for two minutes at a time - and you will see more opportunity than you know what to do with.”

People Knows Two Important Opportunity Pay Attention Half Successful Minutes Pay Attention Successful People Exceed Attention Span

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I told my team before we walked out on to the field in Tampa, I wanted them to stop and look each other in the eye - I mean really look each other in the eye because 10 minutes after we we're done beating the New York Giants, I knew that world would change; free agency, the business side of the business. I wanted them to appreciate this doesn't come very often. It may be the last time you have that opportunity.”

World Looks May Mean Done Eye Wanted Lasts Opportunity Sides Team Minutes New York Fields Appreciate Nfl Giants Agency Last Time Super Bowl Free Agency Tampa

Author:Brian Billick

“I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.”

Helping Lasts Fighting Alive Minutes Century Photographer Fascinated Last Minute

Author:Berenice Abbott

“I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.”

Ifs Want Trying Said Done Kids Used Courses Crazy Minutes Notion Photographer Driven

Author:Diane Arbus

“All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.”

Waiting Minutes Food Cooking Culinary Plates Napkins Flapping

Author:Hugh Casson

“Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.”

Thinking World Said Three Minutes Food Ten Eating Cooking Driving Cooks Paris Shops Culinary Good Eating French Love

Book:Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.”

Way Want Games Can Do Opinion Minutes Gains Soccer Consistent Better Ways Sprint Soccer Game

Author:Abby Wambach

“I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Looks Able Night Guy Sex Five Minutes Figures Conversation Waste Faster Wasting Time Five Minutes All Night

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“Everything is moderation, really. I don't really deprive myself of anything. But I try to balance it with healthy food choices. I am not real fond of exercise, so I try to get away with as little as possible which is about thirty minutes three times a week and I do a little weight training and cardio.”

Trying Littles Real Choices Three Week Minutes Balance Exercise Healthy Training Weight Thirty Get Away Moderation Three Times Healthy Food Cardio Weight Training Food Choices

Author:Martina McBride

“"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."”

People Firsts Said Lasts Song Hours Minutes Paid Jazz Driving Rolls Royce Cannonballs

Author:Robert Glasper

“Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.”

Thinking Years Gone Five Minutes Institutions Indispensable Oxygen Five Minutes

Author:Warren Buffett

“If I tell a joke on stage and the crowd laughs for a minute, I stand there for a minute and enjoy them laughing before I go on to the next joke. On TV, if I stand there for a minute while they laugh, I look like an idiot who can't remember the next joke.”

Ifs Looks Remember Next Enjoy Laughing Minutes Stage Tvs Goes On Jokes Crowds Idiot

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.”

War Wanted Jobs Boys Minutes Noses Skinny Bidding Photogenic

Author:Courtney Love

“Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.”

World Way Two Reason Three Powerful Brain Teaching Minutes Training Optimism Grateful Threat Patterns Reason Why New Things Scanning

Author:Shawn Achor

“For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.”

Thinking Two Past Remember Hours Differences Brain Minutes Details Meaningful Bullets Visualization Most Meaningful Positive Experiences

Author:Shawn Achor

“I like European movies because it seems those audiences are a little more patient. Those movies are always slower, where over here, the studio system freaks out if something doesn't happen every five minutes or if anything is confusing.”

Ifs Littles Seems Happens Audience Five Minutes Patient Studios Freak Confusing Five Minutes

Author:Rob Zombie

“If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.”

People Ifs Way Looks Different Term Forget Talking Issues Minutes Internet Built Best Way Livelihood Most Amazing Broadcasting

Author:Thom Yorke

“If people are still buying tickets, and still buying the DVDs, and they're still watching on YouTube and my fifteen minutes of fame isn't finished yet, then I'll just keep doing it.”

People Ifs Stills Minutes Fame Finished Buying Fifteen Tickets Youtube Dvds

Author:Jeff Dunham

“You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last.”

Knows Long Lasts Know How Minutes Fame Fifteen

Author:Jeff Dunham

“In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train - I do about three hours in the gym...”

Home Running Three Hours Sleep Morning Minutes Wake Up Train Gym Back Home

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.”

Tree Minutes Eating Racism Responsible Racist Tree Of Knowledge

Author:Lynda Barry

“Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.”

Lasts Beautiful Moving Five Week Minutes Flower Sitting Garden Rose Breathe Fence Five Minutes

Book:Letters of Celia Thaxter

Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter

“[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.”

Shows Four Minutes Stage Mom Speed Honey Invitations Ed Sullivan

Author:Moms Mabley

“You do not know, you cannot know, the difficulty of the life of a politician. It means every minute of the day or night, every ounce of your energy. There is no rest, no relaxation. Enjoyment? A politician does not know the meaning of the word.”

Knows Mean Doe Night Energy Minutes Politician Difficulty Enjoyment Relaxation

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“Every man has his devilish minutes.”

Men Sin Minutes Every Man Devilish

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.”

Important Lasts History Five Minutes Important Things Realising Five Minutes

Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science

“Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.”

Ideas Self Opportunity Change Steps Watches Minutes Frozen Great Opportunity

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.”

Giving Humans Littles Character Care Lasts Minutes Anxiety Highest Experience Infinite Invisible Petty Human Experience Polish Powder

Author:William Matthews

“Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.”

People Ifs Needs Age Enjoy Minutes Solitude Weakness Prejudice Faults Endure Unreal Aloof Gregarious Sociability

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.”

Time Given Minutes

Author:Rae Foley

“It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.”

Ifs Knows Littles Moments Seems Kids Next Stuff Animal Minutes Flower Caring Rage Adolescence Little Kid Hormones Stew

Book:Sugar Rush

Source: Sugar Rush

“writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.”

Two Might Week Minutes Staring Two Weeks

Book:Foul Matter

Source: Foul Matter

“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.”

Has Beens Facts Lasts Silence Too Much Wife Minutes Ignorance Disease Victim Profession Medical Conspiracy Womens Rights One Minute Medical Profession

Author:Christabel Pankhurst

“One day, in 1982, for 15 minutes, my hair was perfect.”

Perfect Minutes Hair One Day

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.”

People Ifs Minutes Doctors Fifty Drs Session Apprentice Anvils Blacksmiths

Book:No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

Source: No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp

“The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong. The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray. So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream You've an army at hand; your command is supreme; And question yourself, as it goes on review-- Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?”

Dream Hands Remember Moving Spirit Fighting Strong Hours Minutes Goes On Army Brave Supreme Command Clock March Reviews Seconds Officers Captains Tempted Remember When Tick Fray

Author:Philander Chase Johnson

“Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.”

Giving Minutes Horse Give Me Twenties

Book:Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.”

“It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.”

Ifs Past Moving Guy Girl Fighting Can Do Five Minutes Angry Arguing Spouse Five Minutes True Friend Grudge

Author:Ike Barinholtz

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

Ifs Life Writing Littles Minutes Inspirational Life Type Six Doctors Faster Sympathy Card

Author:Isaac Asimov

“the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.”

World Mean Art Minutes Conditions Months Taste Reflection Machines Flavor Art World Movie Business Unrelenting Flavor Of The Month

Author:Barbara Kruger

“It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.”

People Feels Minutes Type Capable Affair Details Vanity Daily Life Interference Lives Of Others Busybodies

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.”

Wells Minutes Birth Punishment Deserving

Book:The Collected Plays: The wonder and supernatural plays

Source: The Collected Plays: The wonder and supernatural plays

“If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.”

Ifs Giving Children Lasts Party Minutes Messages Bother Host Bullshit Explaining Last Minute

Author:Amy Sedaris

“A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.”

Certain Fall Reading Company Novel Minutes Students Reader Ten Fever Bad Company

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

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