Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Ron Paul

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights' label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

John Wesley

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Peter Agre

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.

Nikola Tesla

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

N. Scott Momaday

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

Mort Kondracke

And there are lots of drug companies that are working on cure or medicine.

Kiana Tom

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

Andrew Weil

It's rare - too rare, I have to say - for botanists to become doctors.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Sinead O'Connor

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

Mariel Hemingway

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

Sherry Stringfield

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Daymon Doss

Petaluma doctors are taking very significant action, and it is sending a message to other physicians throughout the area.

Joyce Agu

My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it doesn't work out, we have the money. We can adopt.

Shaun Woodward

More doctors mean a better service for patients,

Florence Nightingale

Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

Sarah Waters

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.