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Quotes About Ward

Do they wear masks?" Kasabian says. I think about it for a minute. "Yeah. The ones I've seen." "So they must be scared too." "Maybe. Maybe it's camouflage. Or who dies and who doesn't is just part of the game. The way they decorate their masks, it's like Halloween in the psych ward.
~ Richard Kadrey
Parabore (n.) A defense against bores. It would be a very lovely thing indeed if there existed some magical device that you could carry around with you to ward off bores. The closest thing to this I have seen is a contraption Alix gave me a few years back: a little black box on a key chain that will turn off every nearby TV with the push of a button. I carried it with me everywhere and used it whenever I came across that particular form of boredom. Paracme
~ Ammon Shea
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
~ Peter Jackson
We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.
~ Don Winslow
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
~ Robert Taft
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~ John Mortimer
To add insult to injury there's a television at the end of the ward. It's unavoidable, and even more unbearable than usual as it's constantly tuned to ITV, so there are adverts. I wonder if hell is like this? I'd definitely prefer lakes of sulphur and at least being able to swim about in them.
~ Jo Walton
In the first days on D ward, Deborah had been able to dramatize herself in her own mind simply by thinking: the insane asylum—the violent ward. It conjured huge and flaming pictures in her mind. The reality had offered a promise of more physical safety, but to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself.
~ Joanne Greenberg
I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day.
~ Lalla Ward
I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
~ Burt Ward
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
~ Ward Churchill
The second ward was declared a temporary holding cell for their prisoner, the ba, who followed in the procession, bound to a float pallet. Miles scowled as the pallet drifted past, towed on its control lead by a watchful, muscular sergeant.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
But if all we have to do is worry," chides the Mother, "every day for a hundred years, it'll be easy. It'll be nothing. I'll take all the worry in the world, if it wards off the thing itself.
~ Lorrie Moore
Blue must be worn for protection.
~ Alice Hoffman
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
~ Artemus Ward
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
My mother had a thing for blue in tableware; she said it warded off any evil eyes intent on ruining the food.
~ Margaret Atwood
Sorry. My medium powers are on the fritz, and I can't channel spirits or bells right now. I'll get them worked on later. For–" – Sundown "Shh. The wasps are talking to someone. I hear them so clearly." – Abigail 'Okay, time to get someone to a psych ward.' – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
At some point in his life, César had realised that no one ever learns from anyone else's mistakes and, consequently, there was only one dignified and proper attitude to be taken by a guardian - which, after all, was what he was - and that consisted in sitting down next to his young ward, taking her by the hand and listening, with infinite kindness, to the evolving story of her loves and griefs, whilst nature took its own wise and inevitable course.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.
~ Bob Hope
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~ John Mortimer
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~ John Mortimer
appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour
~ John Wyndham