Richard Selzer Quotes

If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

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• I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Afraid
  • Flaws

• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Afraid
  • Republican
  • Sides

• I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Time
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Death
  • Afraid

• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Afraid
  • Expression
  • Cotton

• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Truth
  • True
  • Afraid

• I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

  Gail Devers
  • Disease
  • Illness
  • Surgery

• I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Story
  • Working
  • Afraid

• I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Life
  • Surgery
  • Plastic

• I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Speak
  • Afraid
  • Attorney

• I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Japanese

• I love a good cliffhanger. I love when big events happen in shows. I love shows that aren't afraid to take risks and to really do what's best for the story line and realistic for the story line.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Best
  • Story
  • Afraid

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Afraid
  • Find Out
  • Not Knowing

• I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Afraid
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction

• For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Dying
  • Afraid
  • Lived

• The thing is I have no ACL. So unless I get surgery, there's nothing really magical that I can do that's going to make it better. I just can get my leg stronger, my muscle stronger and try and support it a little more. But that has a small impact. My knee is loose, and it's not stable, and that's the way it's going to be from here on out.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Small
  • Support
  • Stronger

• Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Men
  • Business

• As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• Wherever I go, I'll always see you. You'll always be with me. And there's no happy ending coming here, no way a story that started on a night that's burned into my heart will end the way I wish it could. You're really gone, no last words, and no matter how many letters I write to you, you're never going to reply. You're never going to say good-bye. So I will. Good-bye, Julia. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being you.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Night

• To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Power
  • Like
  • Trump

• Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Children
  • True

• If I quit surgery, I'd be afraid I'd dry up.

  

  Richard Selzer
  • Afraid
  • Surgery