Quotes About Plague Doctors

#1. Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

M. Russell Ballard

#2. The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

Simone Weil

#3. Women
one half the human race at least
care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Walter Bagehot

#4. The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.

Percy Williams Bridgman

#5. Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear.

Thomas Hardy

#6. The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Maimonides

#7. The way you engage someone's pain either reinforces their pain or helps to release it.

Bryant McGill

#8. Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

David Knopfler

#9. The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

Claude Nicollier

#10. His hair in falling seemed to have stuck to his chin, and had prospered in the new locality, for his beard hung down to his waist.

Joseph Conrad

#11. People are willing to be brave when they admit their smallness within the enormity of the world, and the best way to understand our smallness is to leave our comfort zones and start exploring, one foot in front of the other.

Tsh Oxenreider

#12. Being elegant means developing your ability to describe a concept in a beautiful and simple way for easy understanding.

Rohit Bhargava

#13. I believed in the world.
Oh, I wanted

to be easy
in the peopled kingdoms,
to take my place there,
but there was none

that I could find
shaped like me.

Mary Oliver

#14. Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Rick Majerus

#15. Peacefulness should be the place we begin rather than the place we try to achieve.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#16. I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

#17. Avoid doctors like the bubonic plague. On some level I know it's ignorant, but I think the stress of knowing you have a fatal disease kills faster than the disease itself.

Emma Chase