Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

Charles Dickens

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Caleb Colton

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

Charles Caleb Colton

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

Charles Caleb Colton

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Charles Dickens

A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.

Chris Cleave

Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.

David Mixner

For many people with HIV, finding the right doctor is the most important decision they'll make.

Dave Barry

Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.

Dave Barry

It is a good idea to 'shop around' before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.

David Tennant

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

Catherine Deneuve

To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

JoAnn Manson

The perception that these hormones protect the heart was so strong that many doctors were prescribing it to prevent heart disease.

Amy Johnson

The point is to be OK with your stuttering - and meet adults who stutter who are doctors and lawyers and engineers.

Dr. Prescott

We want to see him wake up. There is a medical reason (for the coma). We don't know what it is.

Nathan Barankin

Whenever the medical profession steps into these social policy issues, things get really complicated in a hurry. Quite frankly, that's the reason San Quentin has never required medical professions to be involved.

Barbara Matthews

With the medical evidence, we could prove that was not the case.

Leroy Hood

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

Kevin McCarthy

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.

Eric Kandel

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

Marty Bahamonde

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

Aretha Franklin

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Dick Cheney

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.