Quotes of: Patient Keyword

When he gets to his pew and looks round him he sees just that selection of his neighbors whom he has hitherto avoided. You want to lean pretty heavily on those neighbors. Make his mind flit to and fro between an expression like 'the body of Christ' a...

The Screwtape Letters

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff and self-willed; he is patient with hard fare; he expects no other than to be despised...

The Religious Affections

...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write... ...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not ev...

Robert A. Heinlein

Rancho: [after indirectly making Pia break up with her fiancee] Come on, help us. My friend's father is very ill! Pia V. Sahastrabudhhe: Go away! Rancho: Come on! You are almost a doctor! What is that oath you take... oh yes, Hippocratic oath - I wil...

3 Idiots

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman

If you don't want me to attend the patient I'll go.' 'But she can't see a doctor now.' 'Why not?' 'She isn't well.

Doctor Sally

The best colleague any doctor can have is a more fully informed patient and family.

The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs, Update on alcohol

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

The English Patient

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.

The English Patient

He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.

The English Patient

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.

Hope of Israel

In a field hospital, some ten kilometres behind the lines, Marius lay dying. For three days he had been dying and it was disturbing to the other patients.

The Backwash Of War

In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

Mehmet Oz

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

Jerrold Nadler

You need alot of patient to keep working. It takes time for the goals to be realized.

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

Dogs are loyal, patient, fearless, forgiving, and capable of pure love. Virtues that few people get through life without abandoning, at least once.

The Returns

Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.

The Scar

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

The Summer King

I am obviously not a patient person.

Never Have I Ever: my life (so far) without a date