Medicine Quotes - Page 38

• My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.

  Erykah Badu

  Mother, Children, Powerful

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• I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to medicine and clean water and education." But I don't think poets have any special insight on how to get there. And the 20th century is a pretty good record of that because so many of the great poets were Stalinists: Vallejo, Neruda, Eluard, Aragon, etc. They wrote their odes to Lenin and Stalin. They glorified some of the most violent and grotesque dictatorships of the 20th century. And a lot of the ones who were not Stalinists were fascists or fascist sympathizers.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Water, Special

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

  Thomas Szasz

  Years, Fifty, Lasts

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  Abraham Verghese

  Years, Suffering, Students

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• Perception is reality.

  Lee Atwater

  Philosophy, Reality, Perception

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• In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

  Christopher Hitchens

  World, Brutes

  "Mortality". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cancer, Pneumonia, Blood

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• It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sound, Politics, Rhetoric

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• Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

  Alice Sebold

  Different, Poison, Proportion

  Alice Sebold (2008). “The Almost Moon”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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• I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mean, Greatness, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Mar 04, 2013

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• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, House, Judgement

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• The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Kings, Crazy

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• Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Nurse, Want

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• The new Galliano will be even bigger and better... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the morning every night and not feel tired... I've come face to face with my demons, medicine and alcohol. I have rebuilt myself again.

  John Galliano

  Morning, Tired, Night

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• It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence, charity, medicine, technology, and all of the gifts of the Jews. Our goodness makes them ill.

  Pamela Geller

  Dream, Creativity, Technology

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• When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.

  Chris Adrian

  Giving Up, Writing, Eye

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• A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.

  Lisa Sanders

  Doctors, Detectives, Clue

  Lisa Sanders (2009). “Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis”, p.27, Harmony

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• Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.

  David Fincher

  Lying, Hands, People

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

  Bela Lugosi

  Philosophy, Law, Careers

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• Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

  John Doolittle

  Technology, Long, Development

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• There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Pain, Mean

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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• For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Philosophy, Soma, Body

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.141, Penguin

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• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Punishment

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.

  George S. Kaufman

  Home, Doctors, Want

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• Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

  Marquis de Sade

  Mistress, Needs, Matter

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