Quotes by Physicians - Page 10

...there’s a great deal which I don’t understandin people. In a human being everything should be beautiful: the face, the clothes, the soul, the thoughts. . . .Often I see a beautiful face and clothes, so beautiful that my head gets giddy with rapture; but as for the soul and thoughts,my God! In a beautiful outside there’s sometimes hidden such a black soul that no whitening can rub it off...
Anton Chekhov
Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.
George Minot
Male aggressiveness consists in asking a woman to have intercourse and waiting for her to say yes, or a definite no. Skilful tacticians enhance their chances of making out by distributing their attentions among several women at a time (one version of 'playing the field') thus increasing their statistical chances for a favorable answer, depending on circumstances. This is the height of male aggressiveness that is tolerated. Genuine aggressiveness - rape - [men] have forbidden themselves by law.
Esther Vilar
The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance.
Geoff Mains
My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”—Sherlock Holmes, “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Arthur Conan Doyle
Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.
Debasish Mridha
What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for.
Debasish Mridha
The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I think you’re the only person I know who gets excited over these dead things.”Freya returned his smile with her own grin and let the crossbow in her hands rest against her hip. “If you don’t think they’re even the teensiest bit fascinating, then you best just stay home and let me and Darius do the fun stuff for once.
Laurel Coleman
Attraction is so much more than a pretty face. It’s about passion, attitude, kindness, & faith.
Charles F. Glassman
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer
Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
Albert Schweitzer
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
William James
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. From the love of splendour, from the indulgences of luxury, and from his fondness for amusement he has familiarised himself with a great number of animals, which may not originally have been intended for his associates.The wolf, disarmed of ferocity, is now pillowed in the lady's lap. The cat, the little tiger of our island, whose natural home is the forest, is equally domesticated and caressed. The cow, the hog, the sheep, and the horse, are all, for a variety of purposes, brought under his care and dominion.
Edward Jenner
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.
Walter S. Sutton
The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.
Orison Swett Marden
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James
If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would not have found it with a candle by daylight....
Anton Chekhov
... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there are crumbs... and gherkins... It's disgusting!
Anton Chekhov
A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.
Debasish Mridha
It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.
Richard Jordan Gatling
If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.
Debasish Mridha
Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.
Debasish Mridha
Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it lasts a whole lifetime. Rich people are drunk in a different way, they can't understand this frenzy about security. Being rich is another kind of drunkenness, the forgetful kind. That, in fact, is the whole point of getting rich: to forget.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?
William Harvey
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.
George Sheehan
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
Arthur Conan Doyle
You know that movie, where the little boy says 'I see dead people'?The Sixth Sense.Well, I see them all the time, and I'm getting tired of it. That's what's ruined my mood. Here it is, almost Christmas, and I didn't even think about putting up a tree, because I'm still seeing the autopsy lab in my head. I'm still smelling it on my hands. I come home on a day like this, after two postmortems, and I can't think about cooking dinner. I can't even look at a piece of meat without thinking of muscle fibers. All I can deal with is a cocktail. And then I pour the drink and smell the alcohol, and suddenly there I am, back in the lab. Alcohol, formalin, they both have that same sharp smell.
Tess Gerritsen
We all knew where the goop originated and could have defended ourselves, but the origin of the fusillade doubled as the center of the action. Once the baby’s scalp protruded, we all hunkered down and braced ourselves.
David Z. Hirsch
One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.
Marsden Wagner
Beyond the immediate risks to her health and the health of her baby, when a woman chooses c-section, she decreases the chance that she will be able to get pregnant again and increases the chance that if she does get pregnant, the pregnancy will occur outside the uterus, a situation that never results in a live baby and is life-threatening to the woman. Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section.
Marsden Wagner
...the total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.
Marsden Wagner
Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.
Marsden Wagner
In the garden of my heartFlowers of loves were bloomingNot just to express the beauty But to spread the fragrance Of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.
Anton Chekhov
The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.
Debasish Mridha
The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.
Debasish Mridha
I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.
David Z. Hirsch
My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is nothappiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.
Andrew Weil
We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the secret of contentment. True happiness is only ever possible if you have been unhappy. And there, at that moment, I couldn’t remember the last time I had felt so peaceful. It wouldn’t have been possible for me to take in any more happiness. Moti turned to me and smiled as if she knew. I realised then that this moment and this wonderful feeling would sustain me for a long, long time.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.
Jacob M. Appel
Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.
Debasish Mridha
Make a differenceWhen I live everyday,I ask myself “What did I do today?To make a difference to the world where I live,And that can happen only when I can be selfless and give.
Ron Sen
TempleTemple is a place where God stays,In your heart is where God lays.So if you can touch the God inside your heart,Divine bliss shall always become your part.
Ron Sen
Power of WordsEvery word that you speak,Will either make you feel strong or weak.When you use words, be aware,People who use the right words, well in life they fare.
Ron Sen
Faith helps you to over come all the troubles,If you faith, troubles will blow out like bubbles.So let faith become your strength,As faith will help you to walk the length.
Ron Sen
Expand Your selfReach out to your big mind,Where the treasures of life you shall find.And you can do this by expanding yourself,You will be able to do that when within yourself you delve.
Ron Sen
A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.
Debasish Mridha
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
William Osler
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
William James
A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.
Debasish Mridha
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
Debasish Mridha
Women are wired to take on others’ needs. Own your role in stress, establishing boundaries on what you can reasonably accomplish within your current bandwidth and reduce your stress load.
Sara Gottfried