Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dominik Hasek

I consulted with the doctors but unfortunately, it isn't good, I can't play for the rest of the tournament.

Eoin Colfer

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

Eoin Colfer

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

Hippocrates

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Hippocrates

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Evan Esar

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

Evan Esar

You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

Evan Esar

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.

Isabel Wilkerson

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

Isabel Wilkerson

Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.

Jack Kevorkian

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Jack Kevorkian

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

Kevin Youkilis

Hopefully it will be ready as soon as possible. The doctors said hopefully we can get it ready for pretty much the first playoff games.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Part of the redesign of FEMA is that they have so many people on standby, whether it is a retired nurse or a doctor who will take time off to go exactly where they are needed.

Michael Vick

I'll be ready to play next week, the way it feels right now and what the doctors are telling me.

Isiah Thomas

If there's any player that should feel safe and secure right now about his heart, it's Eddy. He's probably been tested and seen more doctors about his heart than any player in the NBA.

Richard Selzer

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

I'll talk with trainers, doctors, coaches, but I'm looking to play.

Felipe Alou

He's still in the hands of the trainers and doctors. When we're given the green light, we'll stick him in there.

J. D. Salinger

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

It means people will have greater choice, ... If we didn't have that, there would be 475 fewer doctors they'd be able to see.

It was pretty scary at first I doubted I'd be back but the doctors told me right away that it would heal up if I worked at it.

Pete Carroll

It went really well. The doctors made a point that it was something that they had to do.

It's like taking a group of teachers and telling doctors how to practice. And yet it seems to me that it's fairly standard practice that everyone seems to be able to tell teachers what to teach.

It's going to be a long, long, dragged-out process. The doctors can't tell if she's ever going to be the same.

It's been over 10 years, and (the doctors) are 4,000 miles away, so I said what the heck.

Jonah Lomu

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair

Paracelsus

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

Mary Daly

Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.

Prince Charles

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Pierre Bayle

Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.

Mike Ferguson

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody's pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you're like, "This isn't a doctor! I would like to see a degree, Mister!"