Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Charles Grassley

We need to know whether that was an isolated incident or whether similar tragedies have happened or could happen because doctors aren't present during emergencies.

Rory Stewart

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

Regina Brett

For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.

Malala Yousafzai

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

Malala Yousafzai

A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

Dorothy Moore

Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients,