Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • War
  • Career

• I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Health
  • Vegetarian

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Purpose
  • Potential
  • Trials

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Health
  • Choices

• A liar should have a good memory.

  

  Quintilian
  • Good
  • Memory
  • Liar

• Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Real
  • Health
  • Care

• Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

  

  Ovid
  • Health
  • Medicine
  • Medical

• If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care. … My staff and technicians provide it. … If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Health

• Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Work
  • Society
  • Purpose

• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • Health
  • Wisdom

• A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

  

  David Hume
  • Purpose
  • Design
  • Stupid

• And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'

  

  Artur Davis
  • Health
  • Achievement
  • Insurance

• I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • Long
  • Real

• Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Health
  • Purpose
  • Memory