Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jennifer Lawrence

It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.

Jacqueline Novogratz

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

Christopher Hitchens

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Hippocrates

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Hippocrates

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.

Hippocrates

The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.

Hippocrates

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

Bob Dylan

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy - and if I'm not, I don't know the difference. Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be - that's much more important than just being happy.

Charles Bukowski

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

David Nicholls

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

Debby Ryan

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

E. O. Wilson

If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

Toni Morrison

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Sam Harris

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

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.

George Eliot

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Jeremy Fourez

He's undoubtedly a miracle. The doctors said he never could have survived the accident.

Isabel Wilkerson

Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

Jack Kevorkian

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.