Hospitals Quotes - Page 19

• The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tea, Flannels, Slippers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1200, Delphi Classics

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• Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.

  Billy Graham

  Opportunity, Journey, Giving

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

  David Mamet

  Gun, Knives, Want

  "Fictional character: Jim Malone". "The Untouchables", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.

  Otto Frank

  Morning, Sunday, Doctors

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• We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

  George Dana Boardman Pepper

  Adoption, Needs, World

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• We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the same thing with cyber warfare. We should never be attacking hospitals. We should never be taking down power plants unless that is absolutely necessary to ensure our continued existence as a free people.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Technique, Warfare

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Important, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mental hospitals are great for horror movies because they're already scary even without the horror or supernatural elements. This is a place where you can play with the ideas of one's sanity, what's real and what's not.

  Michael Rasmussen

  Real, Supernatural Elements, Play

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.

  Michael Rasmussen

  Crazy, Believe, Character

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common.

  Joan Didion

  Home, People, Common

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• At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Men, Doctors

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• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Museums, Generosity

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• So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
  repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
  I say Live, Live because of the sun,
  the dream, the excitable gift.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dream, Black

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Home is my Bethlehem,
  my succoring shelter,
  my mental hospital,
  my wife, my dam,
  my husband, my sir,
  my womb, my skull.

  Anne Sexton

  Husband, Home, Skulls

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wings, Addiction, Choices

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• Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital
  In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning.
  Selfishness is like listening to good jazz
  With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

  Philip Larkin

  Love, Morning, Fire

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• ...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

  Audra McDonald

  Wisdom, Health, Reality

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• It almost alarms me how free I feel on the ice. I don't think about the hospital or the groceries or the kids--I'm just in touch with myself. It's exciting when your whole body is moving in synchronous motion.

  Tenley Albright

  Freedom, Moving, Kids

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• On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.

  Morrie Ryskind

  Eye, Sight, Gone

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• People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

  Paul Mooney

  Real, Men, White Man

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

  Pattie Mallette

  Suicide, Teenager, Years

  "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother, Baby, Leaving

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• I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  Growing Up, Home, Character

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

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• Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Practice, Fast Food

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• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Len Wein

  Teacher, Art, Dad

  Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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