Hospitals Quotes - Page 25

• How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an army of hot nurses. Makes me sick.""Maybeyou should rupture something.""Any more of these stories out of you and I just might.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Army, Nurse, Sick

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• Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

  Rick Renzi

  Military, Moving, Nurse

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• Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

  John Tillotson

  Hope, Men, Sick

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.663

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• After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.

  Henry Howarth Bashford

  Physicians, Spite, Servant

  The Corner of Harley Street Ch. 8

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• One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference?

  Ronnie Shakes

  Sex, Differences, Want

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• Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Winning, Gambling

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• Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

  Jodi Picoult

  Wall, Lying, Reality

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Discovery, Views

  Marie Curie's lecture at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, May 14, 1921.

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• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Time, Dying

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Depressing, Patient

  "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past" edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2005.

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• In a hospital, there's not anyone who's generally trying to do you harm. You're generally given a backstory about what happened to them, but not about their life, so you get to work on saving their life. But you know whose lives you're saving overseas, in the Army, to a certain degree. You know whether's it your guy or a bad guy, and it's generally not anybody in between.

  Brendan Fehr

  Army, Guy, Trying

  "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

  Zainab Salbi

  Falling In Love, War, Live Life

  "How Do People Live and Cope In The Midst Of Violent Conflict?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 11, 2016.

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• After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.

  Chuck Close

  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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• I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

  Kristen Bell

  Baseball, Glasses, Bats

  "Lincoln Bell Shepard: Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard Welcome Baby Girl". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

  Redd Foxx

  Sorry, People, Drug

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• If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.

  Al Roker

  Country, School, Names

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• Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Crazy, Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.95, Vintage

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• Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.

  Rajneesh

  College, Ideas, Ninety Nine

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• In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

  Atul Gawande

  Team, Independent, People

  "Atul Gawande: “We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us”". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.

  Andrew Saul

  Errors, Guarantees, Care

  "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.

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• With everything that you do, once the costume is on, and you're in the pretend hospital, and you're there with your co-workers, it all sort of snaps into place: Who you are, what it feels like, who these people are to you.

  Edie Falco

  People, Costumes, Co Worker

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview by June Thomas, April 6, 2012.

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• When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him profusely. When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say "that will help."

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Business, Giving, Helping

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• Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

  William Temple

  Atheist, Knowing, Christianity

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