Patient Quotes

#1. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. Be patient with another's mistakes; be strict with your own.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I got there at 8 A.M. and told people how much the tickets were for standing room. I was an NYU Medical School fake patient, to teach doctors how to talk to patients.

Lauren Worsham

#4. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Ivar Giaever

#5. By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

C.S. Lewis

#6. Get up," James finally said, his tone indecipherable. "I don't need a patient dying from pneumonia on me tonight.

L. Jayne

#7. As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.

Robert Jarvik

#8. I cough. "Oh, doctor. I think I'm sick I need some penis-cilin." I fake cough again into my hand. "Poor patient. What will I ever do?" He shoots me a crooked smile and I begin to pant in torturous anticipation.

S.K. Logsdon

#9. I can be patient, Vivienne, and I believe you're worth waiting for.

Samantha Chase

#10. Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

Karl Kraus

#11. You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

Lionel Shriver

#12. Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.

Bobby Scott

#13. Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

Floyd Skloot

#14. Our challenge, our opportunity is to pass common-sense solutions ... that repeal ObamaCare and replace it with patient-centered reforms that will help our constituents have better access to high-quality health care in America.

John Boehner

#15. Doctors say there's no such thing as chemo brain, but ask any chemo patient.

Sarah Addison Allen

#16. never, never, ever force the patient to eat, as it will do them more harm than good, even though your intentions for their well-being are sincere and honorable.

Bob Mcdowell

#17. Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust.

Sean Faris

#18. Marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don't be alarmed, and don't resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. In the long run, it's the unasked-for hot-water bottles on winter nights that matter more than the extravagant gestures.

David Mitchell

#19. Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

Khalil Gibran

#20. Doctor's recommendation to patient. Underneath that was scrawled: Don't do cocaine.

Belle Aurora

#21. Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

Florence Nightingale

#22. Her voice was gentle, patient - why was it making him want to set fire to something?

Leigh Bardugo

#23. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

#24. Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

Abbas Kiarostami

#25. No human being should ever be patient with prejudice at the expense of its victims" The late Rev. William Sloane Coffin

Robert Alper

#26. The only thing left that shows I was a heart patient is I have a scar down the middle of my chest where they went in three times to do open heart surgery. I have a brand new heart inside, and all the mechanical and electronic gear and so forth is all gone.

Dick Cheney

#27. Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

#28. if philosophy develops in the right ways, it might help ease the conflicts between rival dogmatic certainties. But, even if this hope is right, philosophy will never be a quick fix. Its influence is slow, the result of patient questioning and discussion.

Jonathan Glover

#29. What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture ... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.

Greg Berlanti

#30. Love is patient. Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures. Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things will endure: faith, hope, and love.

Jim Butcher

#31. he gave the first modern-day description of the condition in children in a lecture at a London hospital in 1887, noting, "If the patient can be cured at all, it must be by means of diet.

David Perlmutter

#32. I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

Jack Kevorkian

#33. Raising children has made me more patient and selfless.

Candace Cameron

#34. The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

Max Lucado

#35. Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

Bill Vaughan

#36. As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

George Bernard Shaw

#37. Tolerance, meanwhile, is about learning how to be patient. It's about learning how to understand that people will not always be the best of themselves, but that you have to give them a chance.

E.M. Garver

#38. He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key.

Eileen Wilks

#39. So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

Conor Oberst

#40. If I were a doctor, I would diagnose his condition thus: "The patient is suffering from nostalgic insufficiency.

Milan Kundera

#41. You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

Vance Havner

#42. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.

Jason Fried

#43. Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

George Carman

#44. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

Bertrand Russell

#45. Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

Thelma Drake

#46. What we call "mastery" can be defined as that mysterious process through which what is at first difficult or even impossible becomes easy and pleasurable through diligent, patient, long-term practice.

George Leonard

#47. In general, there are patients with insomnia who - many patients with insomnia will actually over report the lack of sleep that they are getting.

Shelby Harris

#48. Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.

Sandra Fluke

#49. Be patient with your troubles.
With patient you will overcome the mountains and the troubles.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

Annika Sorenstam

#51. It's like surgery. You can't close the patient's chest until you've found the wound and operated on it. The problem is the open chest, the wound is the challenge and the YES is the operation. You

Shonda Rhimes

#52. Don't behave like a cat who is patiently waiting for the right time to attack its prey! For you, right time is now, suitable moment is now; use 'now' because any moment after 'now' is just a theory, it may never exist! Stop being patient, stop behaving like a fixed statue and move now!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

Joel Garreau

#54. In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

Frances Ridley Havergal

#55. When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.

Darren Hardy

#56. And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.

George Pattison

#57. In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Ike Skelton

#58. With patient hope, we can endure any hardship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. Over the last six years, I'd examined scores of such scans, on the off chance that some procedure might benefit the patient. But this scan was different: it was my own. I

Paul Kalanithi

#60. Love is a condition that tends to cloud men's reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey

Isabel Allende

#61. Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

Vincent De Paul

#62. What other hope does life hold out
But the miraculous, the skilled and patient
Execution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves?

Weldon Kees

#63. ...that when you wanted to see something very badly,sometimes you had to stay still,stay in the same place, remember how much you wanted to see it,and be patient.If you want to see hawks you have to be patient too.

Helen Macdonald

#64. You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.

Leon Brown

#65. Marcie fancied herself an amateur therapist at times. I was her favorite patient.

Kristin Walker

#66. Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

Rumi

#67. When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Pierre Corneille

#68. Stay lifted in courage and patient with love.

Alexandra Elle

#69. I witnessed a surgery on a patient from New Orleans who was in a car accident. He didn't have any flow of oxygen. He couldn't breathe. He couldn't get a good flow of oxygen, so they did a surgery on him right there, and I was just holding the IV up watching.

Glen Davis

#70. Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.

Anonymous

#71. In all the medical dramas I'd ever seen, there was always some solution, some last-minute, miraculously undiscovered remedy. Nobody ever just gave up on a patient. But it seemed like in real life, they did.

Morgan Matson

#72. Love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Tracie Peterson

#73. Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

John Morton

#74. I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!

Katherine Mansfield

#75. Darkness is patient, always waiting for its chance, and swift to take it.

Mark Lawrence

#76. I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he was at last able to experience how he himself had repeatedly been abandoned by his mother.

Alice Miller

#77. I'm not gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. I'm not patient by nature, but I can be patient by obedience. I'm not peaceful by nature, but I can be peaceful by obedience.

Lysa TerKeurst

#78. I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Deirdre O'Kane

#79. Be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominates

Charlotte Temple

#80. Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

Matt Goldman

#81. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

Henry Miller

#82. It is not ... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

William Osler

#83. Child-- "I can't be patient, that's not a word, so don't even say it mommy."

Mommy-- "What?

Mel Brown

#84. Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;

Kay Redfield Jamison

#85. It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it.

Laura Gilpin

#86. He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

Plato

#87. There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

J.G. Holland

#88. I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

Haruki Murakami

#89. The only patient being treated by the writer is himself

Philip Roth

#90. There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective - that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

Jane Goodall

#91. Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love ...

Thomas A Kempis

#92. If only we wait on God's timings, we shall eat of the best fruits from the tree of life in the garden of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#93. This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#94. I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

#95. A capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

Louisa May Alcott

#96. Inevitably, if you see a person daily in his own home over several months, you will cease to regard him as a patient and come to know him as a person.

Jennifer Worth

#97. Anxiety, as we know, is always connected with a loss ... with a two-sided relation on the point of fading away to be superseded by something else, something which the patient cannot face without vertigo

Jacques Lacan

#98. It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

W. H. Auden

#99. Then when you want free association, you could stretch your patient out the way the barber does to lather up his customer, and when the fifty minutes are up, you could tilt the chair forward again and hand him a mirror so he can see what he looks like on the outside after you've shaved his ego.

Daniel Keyes

#100. The patient decides when it's best to go.

Jack Kevorkian