Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Belichick

You're so kind. I could actually use some attention. I'm suddenly not feeling well. Is there a doctor available?

You never really know what the Lord has in store for you. The doctor was wrong the first time. Maybe I'll prove him wrong again.

Barbara Mikulski

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Ayn Rand

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Ayn Rand

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Eula Biss

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.

Ben Goldacre

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

Ben Goldacre

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

Carson McCullers

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

Carson McCullers

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Al Franken

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

Charles R. Swindoll

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

Charles Churchill

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Blake Edwards

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

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.

Jane Smiley

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

What we're doing is entertaining. It's like a medical show. When you go to the hospital you're not going to find that doctor you see on TV.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

Diane Duane

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

Dan Barber

I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

Boris Pasternak

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Blaise Pascal

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Dean Ornish

Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.

Bob Wright

No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world, The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals

Bob Wickman

There's huge satisfaction in that, but I've got to credit all the doctors and trainers in Cleveland.

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

Antonio Gramsci

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

Bruce Kovner

Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he’s not going to take a patient’s temperature.

Edward Young

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

Charles Bukowski

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

Robert Williams

There are a lot of doctors of faith, and they're quietly ministering to people in need.

Ken Jeong

When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.