Halsted Quotes

#1. Halsted called this procedure the "radical mastectomy," using the word radical in the original Latin sense to mean "root"; he was uprooting cancer from its very source.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. The universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. I'm caught between one void and another. I have no idea what's right, what's wrong. I don't even know what I want any more.

Haruki Murakami

#4. We supped at our pints, imagining a whale fighting a giant squid, probably just as thousands of other men in pubs across the land were doing at that moment.

Danny Wallace

#5. The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

William Stewart Halsted

#6. I am Damian, the king of Antion, and no one will ever take someone I love from me again and live.

Sara B. Larson

#7. Well, you're gonna have to put your big girl panties on and deal with it!

Dana Perino

#8. As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

Rupert Everett

#9. Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

Eric Drooker

#10. Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Robert Black

#11. We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.

Richard J. Foster

#12. I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

Lou Reed

#13. Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.

Viktor E. Frankl