C. Walton Lillehei Quotes

#1. You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

Rand Paul

#2. It's joyous," he says. "If I save someone from breaking a commandment, it gives me a little high." He pumps his fist. "I never took drugs, but I imagine this is what it feels like.

A. J. Jacobs

#3. The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

C. Walton Lillehei

#4. No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.

Edgar S. Brightman

#5. I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.

C. Walton Lillehei

#6. There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

Aaron Sorkin

#7. To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.

Walt Disney

#8. We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

Seneca The Younger

#9. My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

Rob Bell

#10. The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.

Don Kardong

#11. To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process.

Jaggi Vasudev

#12. Even in the midst of a bad decision, I could still live in the moment. And the moment was fine.

Sarina Bowen

#13. Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Henry David Thoreau

#14. One cannot always marry the person one loves...

Kate Mosse

#15. What mankind can dream
research and technology can achieve

C. Walton Lillehei