Top 33 Berwick Quotes
#1. It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick
Lisa Kleypas
#2. Did you have a pleasant ride?" she asked softly, watching as Kathleen introduced Devon to Lady Berwick.
"Which ride are you referring to?" His tone was so bland that at first she didn't perceive his implication.
Helen shot him a shocked glance. "Don't be wicked," she whispered.
Lisa Kleypas
#3. Do you happen to have a pocket mirror?
"I'm afraid not. Why?"
"I've made you late, which means by now Lady Berwick has sprouted serpents from her head, and I can't look at her directly.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. Harold was so tired he could barely lift his feet, and yet he felt such hope, he was giddy with it. If he kept looking at the things that were bigger than himself, he knew he would make it to Berwick.
Rachel Joyce
#5. Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.
Lisa Kleypas
#6. I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
Arthur Balfour
#7. In America the scale of medical embezzlement is extraordinary. According to Donald Berwick, the ex-boss of Medicare and Medicaid (the public health schemes for the old and poor), America lost between $82 billion and $272 billion in 2011 to medical fraud and abuse.
Anonymous
#8. I don't write quickly or a lot. Well actually I write quickly, but I don't have a store of things. I will wait for that erotic moment - like the one which struck me when someone said "have you ever heard of Kester Berwick?"
Robert Dessaix
#9. He knew he was going to reach Berwick, and that all he had to do was to place one foot in front of the other. The simplicity of it was joyful. If he kept going forward, he would of course arrive.
Rachel Joyce
#10. The pewter sea lay behind, while ahead of him was all the land that led to Berwick, where once again there would be sea. He had started; and in doing so Harold could already see the end.
Rachel Joyce
#11. Let us don our armor of control."-Lady Berwick
Lisa Kleypas
#12. The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.
Donald Berwick
#13. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.
Donald Berwick
#14. Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
Donald Berwick
#16. I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.
Donald Berwick
#17. It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.
Donald Berwick
#18. Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.
Ray Berwick
#19. Thus the midday halt of Charnock - more's the pity! Grew a City. As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed, So it spread - Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built
Dennison Berwick
#21. We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.
Donald Berwick
#23. We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.
Donald Berwick
#25. Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
Donald Berwick
#26. I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
Donald Berwick
#28. I have two grandchildren. I want to hand them a planet and community that is really thriving.
Donald Berwick
#29. Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed ... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!
Donald Berwick
#30. Too much thinking will excite the sparks of vice.
Lisa Kleypas
#31. There is no greater enemy of virtue than a charming Welshman.
Lisa Kleypas
#32. As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.
Donald Berwick
#33. The matter ended in my giving up my room. I had a strange reluctance to making the offer. which surprised myself. Was it a boding of evil to come? I cannot say. We are strangely and wonderfully made. It may have been. ("Horror: A True Tale")
John Berwick Harwood
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