There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Though President George W. Bush made some small noises about his intention to present some form of improved health coverage, nothing grew out of them. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
