Prescription Quotes

• Single female life is not prescription, but its opposite: liberation.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Single
  • Liberation
  • Prescription

• 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.

  

  Javier Perez de Cuellar
  • Patient
  • Doctor
  • Surgeon

• I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Read

• Yesterday the DEA raided several NFL teams suspected of giving prescription painkillers to their players. In its defense, the New York Jets' doctor said, 'We don't give painkillers to our players. We give them to our fans.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Giving
  • Defense
  • NFL

• The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Words
  • Support
  • Trouble

• If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Soul
  • Jesus
  • Tears

• As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Around
  • Universal
  • Particularly

• He dredged in a pocket, producing from it a box of non-ethical, and indeed totally inefficacious, tranquillizers, such as could be bought without a prescription across the counter of any chemist’s. ‘Here, have a Kwye Tewd.’

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Producing
  • Chemist
  • Prescription

• I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Doctor
  • Grew Up
  • Antibiotics

• I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Waking
  • Prescription
  • Cholesterol

• Luckily I'm on prescription drugs that prevent me from worrying about anything too much.

  

  Alissa Nutting
  • Drugs
  • Worrying
  • Prescription

• In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Illness
  • Fast
  • Cure

• It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Consumers
  • Higher
  • Hundreds

• The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Medicine
  • Taste
  • No Money

• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • American
  • Consumers
  • Counterparts

• We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Health
  • Affordable
  • Prescription

• One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.

  

  Edward Dorn
  • Sleep
  • Language
  • Reasons

• Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Responsibility
  • Fortunate
  • Prescription

• Many people persist in the wrong job, trying year after year to get good at what they're bad at or at what they dislike. Like marrying the wrong person, working in the wrong job is a prescription for a life of toil-and-groan.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Job
  • Dislike
  • Prescription

• We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Change
  • Reader
  • Global

• As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

  

  Sue Kelly
  • Drug
  • Treatment
  • Prescription