Irretrievably Damaged Quotes

#1. The incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

Marya Mannes

#2. Most questions are clear when someone else has to decide them.

Howard Da Silva

#3. I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

Randy Houser

#4. This, let me remind you again, is a love story; you can see it by the imbecility, not a repulsive imbecility, the exalted imbecility of these proceedings, this station in torchlight, as if they had come there on purpose to have it out for the edification of concealed murderers.

Joseph Conrad

#5. When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

Aleksandar Hemon

#6. If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.

Jeff Kinney

#7. It says, Over these three years, our leader has had the courage to face a Europe that was in danger of collapse . . . It says, He alone is to be thanked for the fact that, for German children, a German life has once again become worth living.

Anthony Doerr

#8. And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

Jessie J.

#9. A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Napoleon Hill

#10. I did all the serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check.

Krista Ritchie

#11. Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

Plato

#12. In this life ain't no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

J. Cole

#13. Peaches are my idea of a nice, generic fruit. Maybe they're not the nutritional superstar of the fruit community, but they sure meet all the requirements of a healthy food. Low calorie, 1½ grams of fiber, small but measurable

Jonny Bowden

#14. All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.

Lyall Watson

#15. In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find out that we no longer have the least thing in common with them, I thought.

Thomas Bernhard