Medicine Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image ““Revolutions can, and often have, begun with reading. The Doctor and the Saint”” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Medicine Reading Revolution
“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate and illuminate… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.” — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself.” — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Revolution is not intelligible and certainly not reasonable within the thought forms and language of this current world; revolution requires faith. When he speaks… — Herbert McCabe Copy Share Image
“That it is the saint’s duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
Tell the truth about your wound, and then you will get a truthful picture of the remedy to apply to it. Don't pack whatever… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients… — Pauline Hanson Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
“I intend to study love as well as medicine, for it is one of the most mysterious and remarkable diseases that afflict mankind, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
