Quotes About Internists

#1. Internists know everything but do nothing; surgeons know nothing but do everything; psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing; and pathologists know everything and do everything, but it is too late.

Vincent DiMaio

#2. This isolation was key to Farber's early success. Insulated from the spotlights of public scrutiny, he worked on a small, obscure piece of the puzzle. Leukemia was an orphan disease, abandoned by internists, who had no drugs to offer for it, and by surgeons, who could not possibly operate on blood.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#3. Surgeons know nothing but do everything. Internists know everything but do nothing. Pathologists know everything and do everything but too late.

Robin Cook

#4. It shouldn't surprise you, then, that notes written by internists read like novellas (ones in which we're paid by the word), while a colleague of mine jokes that a typical post-op surgical note reads something like "Feeling well and doing swell.

Robert Wachter

#5. If you place the imperfect next to the perfect, people will see the difference between the one and the other. But if you offer the imperfect alone, people are only too apt to be satisfied by it.

Alfred Stieglitz

#6. Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Confucius

#7. The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

Theodor Mommsen

#8. Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Man who treat Woman without respect
and see Woman ONLY as a public toilett
forget where they spend their first 9
months of their Life!

Lily Amis

#10. You got potential, Kip.
And you know what potential means? he replied.
Ain't done nothing yet.

Brent Weeks

#11. Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Nick Harkaway

#12. I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Mason Cooley

#15. Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

Gloria Steinem

#16. The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

Asa Gray

#17. When I was younger, all I wanted to do was be a singer, and then I got into a great acting class in New York and became obsessed with that.

Chaley Rose