Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

Charles Churchill

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

Blake Edwards

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Blaise Pascal

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Ayn Rand

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.

Ayn Rand

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Ben Goldacre

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

Ben Goldacre

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

Carson McCullers

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

Carson McCullers

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

Al Franken

If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

My first reaction to the doctor was I'm going to throw up. I couldn't even stomach it.

Daniel Tammet

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.

One doctor said to me, 'The more people pray for you, the more energy is put out somewhere,' ... And he said, 'I'm a doctor telling you this: It works.'

One of doctors is very conversant in Japanese. He will be working to help them if there are any problems.

Willie Nelson

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down -- but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

My doctors told me I would have to go into the hospital if I don't get it.

My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it doesn't work out, we have the money. We can adopt.

Bill Clinton

My doctor ordered me to shut up, which will make every American happy.

My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said ""Cough!

My doctor at Sloan Kettering said if he could help me this way, he would. He told me to go to Germany. People are flying over there from all over the world.

Craig Anderson

More guys might have had it five to 10 years ago and didn't know it. Now a doctor comes around and pinpoints the injury, guys realize they have it and are having surgery because it's just been found.

Shaun Woodward

More doctors mean a better service for patients,

Martin Havlat

My goal the day I had the surgery was to be ready for the playoffs ... and I'm close. Hopefully, the doctor will feel everything is fine and I'm going to be ready soon. That's what I want.

Chris Norman

My hats off to our sports medicine staff. They've done a great job of getting them back together and the doctors that we're working with have been great. We held them out an extra week, and that's a good thing, because we need them to be ready.

My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

Drew Brees

Obviously I'd like to get this thing operated on as soon as possible. We're all very optimistic. The doctors are very optimistic, saying that this is something that they've seen before, done before, It shouldn't be a big deal.

She's going to the doctor (Monday); she's still sick. I'd say she's questionable.

Marcus Trufant

Oh, yeah. I think he's still with us, as far as I know. I don't know what the doctors are saying. But as far as I know, he'll still be here.

She is feeling great, and the doctors are incredibly positive and optimistic.

Martin Henderson

Most people start eating healthy after the doctor says they have a problem. That's just human nature.

Barbara Mikulski

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.