John Shaw Billings Quotes

#1. I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

Helen Dunmore

#2. I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

John Shaw Billings

#4. It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Bryant H. McGill

#5. On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.

John Shaw Billings

#6. Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.

Unknown

#7. One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

Aminu Kano

#8. Just a kiss, Kitten."
"Kitten?" No one called her that.
His mouth curved. "You're skittish, wanting my touch, but afraid. Deciding if you want to claw me or purr for me. Like a kitten."
She lifted an eyebrow. "What if I claw you?"
"Bring it, baby. That

Jennifer Lyon

#9. If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

John Shaw Billings

#10. If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

Richard Rohr

#11. There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.

John Shaw Billings

#12. Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

John Shaw Billings