Quotes About Fred Hollows

#1. I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

Fred Hollows

#2. When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

Angelina Jolie

#3. My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Marcel Duchamp

#4. Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers

Ras Kass

#5. Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Lee Krasner

#6. Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind ... and they just go blind ... they sit around in their huts.

Fred Hollows

#7. The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Fred Hollows

#8. I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

Fred Hollows

#9. We are not usually philosophical in moments of crisis; most often, there is no time.

Michael Walzer

#10. Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

Jesse Jackson

#11. It's time to wake up to the fact that you're just another avatar in someone else's MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.

Raph Koster

#12. Extend
your arms
in welcome
to the future.
The best
is yet to come!

Anthony De Mello

#13. You disappoint yourself more often by not doing things because of cowardice and temerity than you ever did by doing things that turn out to be wrong.

Fred Hollows

#14. I have no problem with cheating. Whatever you can get away with.

Joe Torre

#15. I believe that the basic attribute of mankind is to look after each other

Fred Hollows

#16. Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.

Thubten Yeshe

#17. A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#18. Every eye is an eye, when you're doing the surgery there that is just as important as if you were doing eye surgery on the prime minster or the king.

Fred Hollows

#19. When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

Fred Hollows

#20. God lead us past the setting of the sun
To wizard islands, of august surprise;
God make our blunders wise.

Vachel Lindsay

#21. Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be subjected to the same standards of criticism as any other form of literature.

Lillian H. Smith

#22. To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.

Fred Hollows

#23. As long as we live beyond our means, we are destined to live beneath our means.

Ron Paul

#24. AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

Ron Fournier