Hospitals Quotes - Page 20

• Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

  Carol Grace

  Different, Window

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• There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  Doctors, Stupidity, Patient

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Care, Patient, Given

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• All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

  Edna O'Brien

  Self, Cells, People

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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• The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

  Janet Frame

  Home, World, Able

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

  Bob Dole

  Wish, President, Needs

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• "Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.

  Harvey Cox

  Children, Healing, School

  Harvey Cox (1985). “Seduction Spirit”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In my experience, if you go to a hospital for any reason whatsoever, including to read the gas meter, they give you a tetanus shot.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Children, we should visit homes of the poor, orphanages and hospitals from time to time. We should take our family members along and offer assistance and look after the welfare of inmates. A word spoken with love and concern will give them more comfort than any amount of money. That will lead to the expansion of our hearts as well.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Home, Heart

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• If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

  Princess Diana

  People, Understanding, Suffering

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• The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

  Alastair Campbell

  Mouths, Royal, Causes

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• I think a pastor used to be viewed as the one-stop ministry shop. The pastor served on every committee, volunteered at every event, and made all the hospital visits. I think that is changing and I think that is healthy. Both for the pastor and the congregation.

  Mark Batterson

  Past, Thinking, Healthy

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• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  Jack Buck

  Home, Games, Prison

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• As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

  Rob Bell

  Visits You, People, Funeral

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• A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.

  Billy Campbell

  Lying, Self, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

  Aravind Adiga

  Christian, Father, Community

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• The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.

  Pete Cashmore

  Challenges, Bed, Lines

  ""Pete Cashmore Started A Blog Because It Was Something He Could Do From Bed" by Teri Evans". www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2011.

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• Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Pregnancy, Needs, Disease

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• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  Frank Dobson

  Lying, Party, Views

  "The unofficial opposition: furry, fearless and perfectly Frank" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Father, Thinking, Two

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• I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to question some things.

  Jeff Daniels

  Couple, Kids, Soldier

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• I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

  John Edward

  Vampire, Used, Laboratory

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.

  Abigail Breslin

  People, Feeling Down, Feelings

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• I always think, medically... you really have to be your advocate. You have to be able to back up everything that you're feeling with some information and protect yourself through the world of hospitals and doctors' offices, so the more information the better.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Thinking, Doctors, Office

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• Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, India, Calcutta

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