Doctors Quotes - Page 6

• And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

  Rene Cassin

  Children, Military, Elderly

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• To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.

  Nancy Travis

  Country, Waiting, Way

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

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• I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

  Norman Spinrad

  Novelists, Scripts, Back And Forth

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• As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons have arrived." Then he saw some cheaper cars and said, "The physicians are here, too." ... And when he saw a row of overshoes inside, under the hat rack, he is reported to have remarked, "Ah, I see there are laboratory men here."

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Science, Men, Car

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• The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name.

  Paul Lynde

  Mother, Hypocrite, Names

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• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Health, Promise

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

  Simon Callow

  Years, Film, Newspapers

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• God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

  Robert Owen

  God, Medical, Forgotten

  Epigram Cf. 256:27

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• I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

  Amy Jo Johnson

  Believe, Want, Tomorrow

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

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• We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

  Hunter Tylo

  Eye, Dating, Rooms

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• The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Simple, Greatness

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• I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

  Lalla Ward

  Fun, Thinking, Groups

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

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• The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Health, Men, Medical Knowledge

  Journal Intime 22 August (1873)

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• A few years ago, I thought, I'll never make it. I started to go to the doctor to help me lose weight.

  Etta James

  Years, Weight, Helping

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• The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

  Shana Alexander

  Men, Medicine, Becoming

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• Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Giving, Etiquette, Colleagues

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• Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

  Eleanor Clift

  Mean, Six Months, Hospice

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• If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

  Billy Eckstine

  College, Musician, Crafts

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• The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

  Anna Friel

  Girl, Baby, Character

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

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• Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair.

  Jonah Lomu

  Training, Possibility, Ends

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

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• Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

  Agatha Christie

  Death, Science, Trying

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Country, Silly

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• Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Fitness, Work

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.

  Voltaire

  Health, Drug, Body

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• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

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