Doctors Quotes - Page 20

• An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

  Avicenna

  Ignorant, Camps

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• The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia.

  Jose Carreras

  Moments, Leukemia

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• I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

  Jorge Amado

  Husband, Father, School

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• Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

  Steven Moffat

  Believe, Thinking, Saved

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• Mary frowned. A vampire doctor. Talk about exploring your alternative therapies.

  J.R. Ward

  Vampire, Alternatives, Mary

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.936, Penguin

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• The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Men, Talking

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• I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.

  Jay Asher

  Dad, Thinking, Drug

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

  Gayle Forman

  Heart, Airports, Miracle

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.71, Penguin

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• Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

  J.R. Ward

  House, Gallows, Deals

  J.R. Ward (2008). “The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide”, p.305, Penguin

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• So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?

  Steven Moffat

  Children, Cry, Affair

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• No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

  Atul Gawande

  Taken, Perfection, Matter

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.74, Profile Books

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• We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)

  Erich Segal

  Suicide, Eight, Offering

  Erich Segal (2013). “Doctors”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants, insurance brokers, hairdressers, mothers of children, black belts, pop stars, taxi drivers, painters, lesbians, doctors etc. etc. The X-Files, Buffy, the Matrix, X-Men - mainstream culture is not what it once was when science fiction and comics fans huddled in cellars like Gnostic Christians dodging the Romans. We should come up into the light soon before we suffocate.

  Grant Morrison

  Christian, Mother, Stars

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• I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crush, Believe, Men

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.14, HarperCollins Australia

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

  Diane Duane

  Lord

  Diane Duane (2000). “Doctor's Orders”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

  Ned Vizzini

  Distance, Hands, People

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• if I’d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in his chair with a guilty expression. The tomato, too, was in hiding somewhere. I didn’t want to know where. I truly didn’t.

  Kim Harrison

  Expression, Tomatoes, Want

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• Change your mind about playing doctor?" "No, but I hear candy-striper uniforms are pretty cute.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cute, Mind, Uniforms

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.532, Harlequin

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• The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.

  Tea Obreht

  Giving, Living Once, Knows

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• Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

  Joe Haldeman

  Skins, Bags, Realizing

  Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt.

  Caitlin Moran

  Passion, Glasses, Looks

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• I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated people in the world through our diaspora. We’ve had to be. When you ain’t got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that I’m not safe from anything if I don’t write?

  Suheir Hammad

  Father, Writing, Mean

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• The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

  Rick Yancey

  Drinking, Men, Imbeciles

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Lost, Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.166, Race Point Pub

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• I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Sympathy, Heart, People

  "Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1968.

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