I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.
I value each woman for what she has to offer whether it be charm-beauty-wit-intelligence or humor but warmth is the quality I value most.
I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.
When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.
A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.
John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers. . . and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.
Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you. " Caine
I can see it, Ed, I leaned deeper into you, felt you nodding along with the sounds in the room, and your warmth signaled through to me from under your shirt, lovely strong, safe and right.
After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.
Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that — in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.
Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.
Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.
She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else. . . books.
Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.