Royal College of Nursing (RCN) - The world's largest professional union of nurses, with more than 300, 000 members. It's run by nurses for nurses, is the fastest growing trade union in the UK, is the second largest outside the Trades Union Congress and one of only four trade union in the country with a woman as General Secretary.
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Royal College of Nursing "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Royal College of Nursing
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Royal College of Nursing That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Royal College of Nursing
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Royal College of Nursing "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Royal College of Nursing
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Royal College of Nursing May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Royal College of Nursing
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Royal College of Nursing Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Royal College of Nursing
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Royal College of Nursing The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Royal College of Nursing
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Royal College of Nursing "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Royal College of Nursing
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Royal College of Nursing Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Royal College of Nursing
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Royal College of Nursing "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Royal College of Nursing
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Royal College of Nursing Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Use your own best judgment at all times.
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Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Royal College of Nursing We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Royal College of Nursing
