"Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens…" — Abraham Verghese
"Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels."
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89 Quotes by Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese has 89 quotes on this site.
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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.
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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no…
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone…
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.…
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of…
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging…
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
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Don't Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that…
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More Bowels Quotes
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one of 61 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
— Francois Fenelon
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
— Samuel Rutherford
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No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.
— Joan Rivers
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
— Thomas Hobbes
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The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his…
— Truman G. Madsen
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
— John Calvin
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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is…
— Lin Yutang
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Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
— Oliver Cromwell
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Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of…
— William Shakespeare
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially…
— Ellen G. White
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