Hospitals Quotes - Page 10

• I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

  Paul Pierce

  Golf, College, Kansas

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• The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Mother, Pain, Revenge

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• We know the potentiality of Nigeria and the talent and the resources and to see it having no effect on the lives of the people, on the infrastructure, the roads, the hospitals, the schools, seeing no effect of these talents, these recourses is very frustrating. But it is the result of the damage that was done to the country, especially during the various military regimes.

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, Military, School

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• My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to find out what they thought about separatism. He would come back on weekends. He said "well, I think I found out how they feel about separatism. I brought it up at lunch in the cafeteria, and everybody at the table was silent and then somebody said 'Let's change the subject'."

  Jane Jacobs

  Husband, Weekend, Thinking

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Airports, Littles, Misery

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• I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Pain, Book, Eye

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• Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sleep, Done, Contagious

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• We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

  John Keegan

  School, Government, Sea

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• Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Doctors, Nurse, Punctuation

  Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

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• Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As an aside, it is now amazing to me how much of the advice from my elders in those days has not come true. I have not gone blind or deaf, despite some early teen advice to the contrary. The only time I was ever involved in a car accident, I was taken to hospital, but no one seemed to take the slightest bit of notice as to whether I had on clean underwear or not. I have, as yet, been unable to test the nymph and heaven advice.)

  Tony Bishop

  Taken, Clean Underwear, Sea

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• Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

  Josh Ross

  Wall, Kids, Makeup

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• Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.

  Roger Zelazny

  Pneumonia, Years, Two

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• Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

  Lindsey Graham

  Wings, People, Giving

  "Estate Tax Debate". "PBS NewsHour" with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 8, 2000.

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• A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.

  Larry Hagman

  Doctors, People, Stuff

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

  Faith Sullivan

  Differences, Disease, Awful

  Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books

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• My top priority in life is my workout. Regardless of what happens, I hit that gym. Even when I was in the hospital twice with serious knee operations: Right after I came out of anesthesia, there was a chin bar over my head and dumbbells. I worked out immediately.

  Jack LaLanne

  Workout, Priorities In Life, Knees

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• God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

  John Ortberg

  God, Jobs, Vacation

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I will not spend the money for myself. I will rather spend it in special business on a no-profit-no-loss policy. We will also establish an eye hospital where even beggars will be given treatment at the cost of Taka 10-20.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Eye, Loss, Special

  The Daily Star, October 14, 2006.

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• For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Real, Long, World

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• I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.

  Katha Pollitt

  Prayer, Believe, School

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• It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

  Carolyn Wheat

  World, Poverty, Illness

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• I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Grateful, Squares, Rights

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Teacher, House, Intellectual

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 51), February 26, 1964.

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• My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.

  Ted Lindsay

  Nhl, Three, Firsts

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• Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.

  Jackie Chan

  Children, Taken, Kids

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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