Greek Physician Quotes

#1. Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

S. Jay Olshansky

#2. Your circumstances and situations never keep you down. The only things that keep you down and keep you stuck are your thoughts.

John Kehoe

#3. Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

Melissa Breen

#4. There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says ... it's payback time!

Jasper Fforde

#5. John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.

Alasdair MacLean

#6. The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

Helen Beardsley

#7. My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

Peter Diamandis

#8. By getting to know you I get to know myself too.

Kate McGahan

#9. My dear young lady,' said the professor ... 'there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which is well worth trying.'
'What's that?' said Susan.
'We might all try minding our own business ...

C.S. Lewis

#10. The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

Sydney J. Harris

#11. The girl who signed her papers in lipstick
leans against the drugstore, smoking,
brushing her hair like a machine

Billy Collins