Medicine Quotes - Page 24

• I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Meds, Majors

  "Interview: Chatting with Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker About their New Fox Talk Show & More". Interview with Aramide A Tinubu, blogs.indiewire.com. July 6, 2015.

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• There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!

  John Frederick Boyes

  Men, Mind, Trying

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.3

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• Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Enemy, Poison, Use

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• Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Friendship, Goodness, Fountain

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• Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.

  Harriet Martineau

  Brother, Truth, Nurse

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• Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Doe, Clergymen, Quacks

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• It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Country, Winter, Sheep

  Fredrika Bremer (1863). “Greece and the Greeks: The Narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel in Greece and Its Islands”, p.213

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• Stories are medicine.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Stories

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• Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked negative thoughts can permeate the being and manifest themselves in negative actions.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Negativity, Negative, Action

  Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem (2016). “Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women”, p.47, Fulcrum Publishing

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• When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

  Amy Sedaris

  Drug, Mind, Rooms

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• Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Two Worlds, Ordinary World, People

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this world, were medicine, law, computers, and the performing arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Law, Enlightenment

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• Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the last 3,000 years? It's the level of souls that are incarnating. The older Atlantean souls are coming back. They have a natural affinity for communication, electronics, medicine, law and media.

  Frederick Lenz

  Communication, Technology, Media

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• Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Vanity, Poison, World

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• Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If it happened to be astronomy, or botany, or medicine, or law, he would never be allowed to work in any of these arts, or to take a decisive part in the history of any one of these sciences without having, at least, acquired: the A B C of it; but the awful fact of politics is that we do not take the trouble seriously to understand the political situation.

  Hugh Price Hughes

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• [Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

  Barbara Bergmann

  People, Advice, Patents

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Marriage, Giving Up, Husband

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• Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach... love is close by... and you are not alone! With such potency, music should be treated with care. The sound, the feel, the presentation... everything! It is a medicine. It is a teacher!

  Dave Sitek

  Song, Teacher, Passion

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• Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Strong, Differences, Poison

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• John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Two, Together, Progress

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• As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Children, School, Air

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.

  Andy Rooney

  Technology, Thinking, Long

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• I don't like medicine. There's an old Irish proverb that goes, "If I knew where I was going to die, I wouldn't go there." I suspect that I'm going to die in a hospital, so every time I go past one, I drive really quickly to get away from those things. So I spend a lot of money on health: gyms, I go to naturopaths, acupuncturists; anybody else who's almost the alternative to medicine. I think by the time you need medicine, it's too late. That's my belief.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Past, Thinking, Needs

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• Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

  Dale Spender

  Daughter, Reading, Writing

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