Doctors Quotes

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Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her… — Denis Johnson
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man will be totally… — Michel Foucault
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, â€œare not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the… — Patch Adams
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… — Evelyn Waugh
Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll… — Meg Rosoff
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if… — Khaled Hosseini
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. — Steve Martin
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was… — D. A. Carson
In February, the overcast sky isnâ€™t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. Itâ€™s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the… — Charles Baxter
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world… — Alan Moore
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much… — Chuck Palahniuk
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. — Benjamin Franklin
Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. — Bill Maher
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know… — Tennessee Williams
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. — Benjamin Franklin
Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And… — David Foster Wallace
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of… — Kurt Vonnegut
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate… — Susanna Kaysen
When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've… — Michael J. Fox

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