Organs Quotes - Page 11

• I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tunes, Complaining, Monkeys

  During a debate on the Suez crisis, 'Hansard' 16 May 1957, col. 680

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• The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

  Emile Durkheim

  Art, Political, Sound

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

  George Benson

  Simple, Guitar, Band

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• We don't have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Heart, People, Three

  "Ezra Klein Interviews Ezekiel Emanuel on 'Death Panels' and D.C. Food". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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• The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

  David Eagleman

  Self, Skulls, Consistency

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

  Rene Descartes

  Men, Hands, Purpose

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• Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Mind, Weakness

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• For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

  Walter Rudolf Hess

  Men, Sickness, Humans

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• For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

  Callie Khouri

  Independent, Like You, Selling

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• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aging, Periods, Certain

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• Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

  David Price

  Party, Government, Panacea

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• I hope more people decide to become organ donors.

  Donna Reed

  People, Donors, Organ Donor

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

  Mary Roach

  Heart, Writing, People

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• How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Men, Color

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• One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Men, Light

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• In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Science, Men

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• Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Needs, Intellect, Knows

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• For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

  Marilyn French

  Lying, Mean, People

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• It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

  Irving Layton

  Giving, Perfect, Bliss

  1969 TheWhole Bloody Bird,'Aphs'.

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• The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Body, Pancreas, Complexes

  "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

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• There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Powerful, Moving

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• He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Surface

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Thinking

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.127

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• Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Peace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100

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• In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

  Bill Cosby

  Senior, Baby, Men

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