Hospitals Quotes

• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Business, Comeback

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• The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Sick

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Desire, Bed, Literature

  "The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

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• A hospital alone shows what war is.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Peace, War, Hospitality

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

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• A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Never Trust, Descent, Macabre

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.26, Vintage

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• The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Community, Physicians, Clinic

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017

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• Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.

  T. D. Jakes

  Opportunity, Steps, Moments

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• Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

  Anais Nin

  Inhumanity

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• Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Study, Human Nature

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

  Derrick Williams

  Italian, Doctors, Smoking

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• A Hospital is no place to be sick.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Witty, Health, Sick

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

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• Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Doctors, Office

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• The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life of the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the newborn , knowledge and confidence for the young mother, a voice for those too weak to speak, and so on.

  Virginia Henderson

  Love, Confidence, Mother

  "A Virginia Henderson Reader: Excellence in Nursing".

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• what a fascinating mix a hospital can be of people in a huge hurry and people too slow to get out of their way.

  Josh Bazell

  People, Way, Fascinating

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• Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Summer, Firsts, Carefree

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• Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

  Jermaine Jackson

  Doctors, World, Care

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. September 18, 2011.

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• The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  William Kurelek

  Skulls, People, Interesting

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• Visiting someone in a hospital recently, I watched an elderly couple. The man was in a wheelchair, the wife sitting next to him in the visitors' room. For the half-hour that I watched they never exchanged a word, just held hands and looked at each other, and once or twice the man patted his wife's face. The feeling of love was so thick in that room that I felt I was sharing in their communion and was shaken all day by their pain, their love, something sad and also joyful: the fullness of a human relationship.

  Eda LeShan

  Love, Couple, Pain

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• Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.

  John Yudkin

  Dark, Men, Mcdonalds

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• If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Children, Growing Up, Sleep

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• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  Kate Millett

  Saws, Hospitality, Hell

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• Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Soul, Religion, World

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• When I die, don't bring me to the hospital. Bring me to Anfield. I was born there and will die there.

  Steven Gerrard

  Anfield, Born, Dies

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• Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

  Molly Haskell

  Weekend, Night, Airports

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.34, iUniverse

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• Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Family, Christian, Religious

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