William Stewart Halsted Quotes
The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to have no plans. It is amazing where your day can turn when you have no plans: meeting people or just going to a little pub on the side of the road.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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The general market wants what I do.
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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
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The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly.
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What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.
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I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil.
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All things are ready, if our mind be so.
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Light up a spliff and hit the strip club.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.
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I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills I've recommended, that's up to him. But I must warn that next time I will have to come as a surgeon with a knife.
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I'm very patient with life.
