Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carmen Balber

Patients aren't doctors. Patients don't have medical knowledge. It's (the doctor's) job to find out what's wrong with you. It's their responsibility, not the patient's.

John Schaeffer

Some of these doctors have been in practice 20 to 30 years, ... And then there's even some questions, if it's a new technology, can they even learn it comfortably?

Bill Engvall

I told my wife I'm afraid to go back to the doctor because I'm afraid they're going to look at you and say: 'ma'am, just sell him for parts. It's like that old car that as soon as you fix one thing, something else goes out on it.

Bill Cosby

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.

Carrie Fisher

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Juan Garcia

I think they should have known and explained more to the doctors and everyone.

Bill Vaughan

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bertrand Russell

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

Kyle Wright

It got pretty sore. The doctors said it should be fine.

Carl Rogers

I prize the privilege of being alone.

William Wilberforce

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Brandon Sanderson

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Eleanor Catton

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Edward Abbey

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Alberto Giacometti

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Milwaukee Brewers

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Daniel Sullivan

He is suffering a lot of psychological trauma that he doesn't know he is going through.

Al Gore

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.