Astley Cooper Quotes

The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.

Astley Cooper

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• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• Have a little faith. Don't give up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Give

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Society

• That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Cute
  • Lana Del Rey

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Important
  • Better
  • Craft

• Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Mind
  • Genius
  • Conditions

• I've got an opinion on everything.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Opinion
  • Everything
  • Got

• Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Just
  • Mistaken
  • Egotism

• Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • Time
  • Culture

• I was neitherLiving nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Silence

• Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Alone
  • Decision
  • Victory

• reported by Trudy Ring, 'Georgia Governor: 'License to Discriminate' Bill Isn't Christian,' The Advocate, March 3, 2016

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Christian
  • March

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• When a subject pops into a director's head, you either fit in there somewhere, or you don't. An actor is only who he is. Especially as you get older, there's not as much of a range of potentially feasible parts.

  

  Charlotte Rampling

• Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Problems

• I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Country
  • Think
  • Free

• I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.

  

  Astley Cooper
  • Science
  • Murder
  • Conjecture