Young Doctor's Notebook Quotes

#1. Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

Frances Power Cobbe

#2. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Franz Grillparzer

#3. friendship with God is the entire goal of the Christian life.

Lauren F. Winner

#4. The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

Randolph Bourne

#5. The letters a and l are the most common in Arabic, partly because of the definite article al-, whereas the letter j appears only a tenth as frequently.

Simon Singh

#6. I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.

Sara Teasdale

#7. What do others think they see?

Antonio Porchia

#8. The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree.

Victor Hugo

#9. I'm a bad traveller because I suffer from travel sickness.

Miranda Raison

#10. The moon passed overhead in its path from the Vinkus, and she felt its accusatory spotlight, and moved back from the tall windows.

Gregory Maguire

#11. Twitter is the world.

Jack Dorsey

#12. To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.

Mark Twain

#13. That last voice in his head.
It hadn't been Billy's.
It was his own.

Barry Lyga

#14. The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

Jerry Yang

#15. Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman