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Inspirational Quotes by Abraham Verghese
- We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
- What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
- What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
- When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
- I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
- Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
- I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
- Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
- You live it forward, but understand it backward.
- ...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
- Make something beautiful of your life.
- Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that…
- Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
- He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.
- How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
- Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
- Geography is destiny.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento