William Osler Quotes

What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

William Osler

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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Warm

• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Success
  • Humble

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Me
  • Actress
  • Stereotype

• Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Football
  • Dog
  • Youth

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• One rose says more than the dozen.

  

  Wendy Craig
  • More
  • Rose
  • Than

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
  • Possible

• I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Love
  • Girl

• A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Stress

• A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • History
  • Game
  • Missing

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

  

  Zane Grey
  • New
  • Year
  • Decent

• A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • Trying
  • May
  • Girl

• All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?

  

  Anne Carson
  • Life
  • True
  • Words

• Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Fortune

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.

  

  William Osler
  • Life
  • Trials
  • Superiors