Hospitals Quotes - Page 6

• I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

  Robert Benchley

  Comedy, Patient, Hospitality

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• I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

  Pope Francis

  Blood, Church, Battle

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.54, A&C Black

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• What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Gay

  Interview, www.weeklystandard.com. 2004.

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• My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

  Morgan Freeman

  Parent, Memphis, Firsts

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

  Dan Benishek

  Jobs, School, Prison

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• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Couple, Gay

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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Atheist, Prayer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

  Richard Neal

  Years, Numbers, Dollars

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• I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

  John Forbes Nash

  Eight, Months, Jersey

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• By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Home, School, Cities

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Games, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

  Marlo Thomas

  Taken, Cost, Care

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• Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Unique, Hands, Political

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• Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Doctors, Goal, Today

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• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  Barbra Streisand

  Home, People, Sick

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• I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

  Carrie Fisher

  Imbalance, Chemicals, States

  "PrimeTime: Carrie Fisher Interview". "PrimeTime" with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. December 21, 2000.

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• I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

  Sharon Stone

  Compassion, Medicine, Giving

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• I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

  Joseph Barbera

  Ideas, Laughing, Rooms

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

  Travis Barker

  Eye, Numbers, Way

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• In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.

  Travis Barker

  Swim, Wells

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• It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Doctors, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

  Richard Simmons

  Cheer, Phones, Years

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

  Neal Barnard

  Real, Animal, Rights

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• For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

  Gerald R. Ford

  School, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

  Redd Foxx

  Funny, Lying, Stupid

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