“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation… — Rudolf Breuss Copy Share Image
Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation of the hands. — L. M. Boyd Copy Share Image
It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in… — Terry Fox Copy Share Image
Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
One can't run in a park without a dog or make angels in the snow without a child and there are things… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
