Top 100 An Operation Quotes
#1. For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.
Sylvester Stallone
#2. Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.
Dolly Parton
#3. When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.
Freida Pinto
#4. Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear.
Ernest Hemingway,
#5. We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
David Karp
#6. How grateful are we
how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#7. I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.
Demi Moore
#8. what death is, and the fact that, if a man looks at it in itself, and by the abstractive power of reflection resolves into their parts all the things which present themselves to the imagination in it, he will then consider it to be nothing else than an operation of nature;
Marcus Aurelius
#9. This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
#10. Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser
Michael Caine
#11. If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.
Dorothy Denning
#12. The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.
Robert Dallek
#13. I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.
David Suzuki
#14. Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
Scott Westerfeld
#15. I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
Taylor Caldwell
#16. I was having these terrible back pains, and then one day in Switzerland, things got very bad. My wife Maryanna called the hotel doctor, but I don't remember any of this, I was out of it. I had an operation, and I was nearly lost.
John Tavener
#17. I just had an operation for piles - all my troubles are behind me.
Ken Brett
#18. Once in a while a lung disease tumor can't be come to by bronchoscopy or needle techniques. In these cases, the best way to get a biopsy is with an operation.
Cancercenter
#19. My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
Steven Tyler
#20. I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.
R. Kelly
#21. Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
Clifton Fadiman
#22. Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?'
'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over.
Malcolm Bradbury
#23. The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.
Mary McCarthy
#24. I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.
David Cassidy
#25. I never say of an operation that it is without danger.
August Bier
#26. I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
Walter Isaacson
#27. If there is an operation, and if that operation is successful, she says she will move to Sweden. I fear for her future in a country whose citizenry is forced to assemble its own furniture.
Anthony Marra
#28. While trying to frame someone, one needs to bear in mind if the intended target is even capable of carrying out such an operation, so as to make the world believe they actually did it.
- The Linchpin, Pg. 19
Neeraj Ashok
#29. A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation.
Susan Block
#30. I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.
Syd Barrett
#31. Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
Cesare Pavese
#32. Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.
Rube Goldberg
#33. Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.
Jeremy Corbyn
#34. Having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#35. The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#36. In all seriousness ... you who submit yourselves to an abortion or to an operation that precludes you from safely having additional healthy children are jeopardizing your exaltation and your future membership in the kingdom of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
#37. My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays.
Joey Bishop
#38. It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.
Jess Glynne
#39. NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.
Bill Vaughan
#40. I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
Cilla Black
#41. She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.
Helen Hodgman
#42. I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the harder it is to recover.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#43. I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.
Uday Hussein
#44. Everybody knows that orthopedic science provides beautiful false noses for people who have lost their noses naturally or as a result of an operation.
Gaston Leroux
#46. The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.
Gordon England
#47. It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
Martin Fleischmann
#48. No one looks at your hands to see how much they shake when you are interviewed to be a surgeon. The physical skills required are no greater than for writing cursive script. If an operation requires so much skill only a few surgeons can do it, you modify the operation to make it simpler.
Atul Gawande
#49. The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#50. An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.
George Santayana
#51. When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman
#52. When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.
Atul Gawande
#53. You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Irvin S. Cobb
#54. Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#55. I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
Lou Gramm
#56. Usually I enjoy a first night as a surgeon enjoys an operation: this time I enjoyed it as a playgoer enjoys a pleasant performance. p 267
George Bernard Shaw
#57. My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
David Bohm
#58. A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#59. My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch!
John Cameron Mitchell
#60. I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.
Barack Obama
#61. Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.
Russell Brand
#62. I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.
Rick Santorum
#63. The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'
Amy Poehler
#64. The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
Bella Abzug
#65. It is an interesting balance in trying to find players to make your team really good and at the same time running a financially sound operation. That is the challenge for every team.
Steve Kerr
#66. Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
H.G.Wells
#67. Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
William Godwin
#68. Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. Being a critic is easy.
But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.
Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.
Haemin Sunim
#71. The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
Jeffrey Toobin
#72. Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Helen Rowland
#73. The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
George Santayana
#74. ...[I]f I know that it is only by this process that the intended operation can be performed, then to say that if I fully will the operation, I also will the action required for it, is an analytical proposition...
Immanuel Kant
#75. We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way.
Liu Jingmin
#76. Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#77. If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference.
Gordon Brown
#78. On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed.
Joe Rogan
#79. Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.
Letitia Baldrige
#80. Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?
David Ogilvy
#81. People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it's more like having a gallbladder operation.
Al Yankovic
#82. This will equally apply to every Latter-day Saint. Salvation is an individual operation.
Thomas S. Monson
#83. The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
Charles Horton Cooley
#84. Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself ... It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
Harper Lee
#85. If you make change part of your operation routine and your DNA, and then change becomes easier to deal with, and even become an ongoing core business capability.
Pearl Zhu
#86. Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.
Mahatma Gandhi
#87. Anonymous is like an amoeba: it's got too many different operations run by truly different people which might not share a single person with another operation, but they use the same branding - they are part of the Anonymous brand, just like al-Qaida.
Mikko Hypponen
#88. When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix.
Jean-Marie Guehenno
#89. Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.
Lee Zeldin
#90. What is more important for us, at an elemental level, than the control, the owning and operation, of our own physical selves? And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought.
Oliver Sacks
#91. Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.
Michael Scheuer
#92. More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation ... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.
Leonard Bailey
#93. Atlantis?" Jason asked. "That's a myth," Percy said. "Uh ... don't we deal in myths?" "No, I mean it's a made-up myth. Not, like, an actual true myth." "So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, then?" "Shut up, Grace.
Rick Riordan
#94. If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
W. Edwards Deming
#95. To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.
Giulio Douhet
#96. In 1989 an American invasion, Operation Just Cause, had ousted the government of President Manuel Noriega. 'They got rid of Ali Baba but they forgot the forty thieves,' ran a popular joke in Panama.
Adam Sisman
#97. Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.
Edward Abbey
#98. Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
Walter Chrysler
#99. Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
Pablo Picasso
#100. An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
Benjamin Graham
