Doctor Noble Profession Quotes

#1. I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.

Robert Osborne

#2. The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

John Dewey

#4. Joey described to her the sleek warm neatness of her turds as they slid from her anus and fell into his open mouth, where, since they were only words, they tasted like excellent dark chocolate.

Jonathan Franzen

#5. A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

Leonard Ravenhill

#6. There was an old man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp;
When they asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't,
But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet.

W.S. Gilbert

#7. I have found that life is alive and we are requested to have a friendship with it, to have a conversation with life and that conversation is restorative and healing and always nearby.

Mark Nepo

#8. Life's a quest - A long search for something we can't name; something we want and usually can't get. We don't know precisely what it is - all we know is that we don't get it. What a fellow needs is something in which he can lose himself when everything else is a mess.

Peter Ruber

#9. I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

#10. To impatient youth, all things took for ever and any kind of waiting was torture. Pg. 221

Hugh Howey

#11. Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

Joshua Ferris