Doctors Quotes
1718 Doctors quotes by 1239 unique authors
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Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me…
— Philip Roth
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She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because…
— Lois Lowry
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Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.
— Bram Stoker
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Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
— George Carlin
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Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them;…
— Marcel Proust
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Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could.…
— Eoin Colfer
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One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land…
— Aldo Leopold
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The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.
— Steve Martin
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You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by…
— Haruki Murakami
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Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk…
— Katherine Dunn
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Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than…
— James Kahn
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Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?
— Eoin Colfer
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This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why don’t you turn…
— Woody Allen
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The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.
— Steven Wright
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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
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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
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To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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
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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
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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
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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
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
— Steve Martin
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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
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In February, the overcast sky isn’t gloomy so much as neutral and vague. It’s a significant factor in the common experience of depression among the…
— Charles Baxter
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