Jacob M. Appel Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Jacob M. Appel
Battery Park resonates with lust as the sun approaches its zenith. A primal impulse takes hold of the young couples strolling the gravel walkways, the newlyweds who have paused to admire DeModica's bronze bull, the truant teens laid out on the cool grass. Maybe because all flesh tantalizes in the early summer, in the right light, or because, at this time of year, there is more flesh exposed, midriffs, cleavage, inner thighs, the park is suddenly transformed into a dynamo of panting and groping. This desire is not the tender affection of evening, the wistful intimacy of the twilight's last gleam. It is raw, concupiscent hunger. — Jacob M. Appel
If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death. — Jacob M. Appel
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own. — Jacob M. Appel
You can measure a man's sorrow, and the world's, in the number of stories that perish unheard. — Jacob M. Appel
Nixon's offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving. — Jacob M. Appel
Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad. — Jacob M. Appel
Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history. — Jacob M. Appel
Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities. — Jacob M. Appel
A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys. — Jacob M. Appel
Now I know how to make it as a pedophile. Forget lollypops. Antarctic wildlife is the ticket. — Jacob M. Appel
Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando two
birds short of a dinner party ... I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less. — Jacob M. Appel
I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill my fathers veins, he is sharing with me his final gift: the horror and thrill of saving lives. — Jacob M. Appel
Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer. — Jacob M. Appel
I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square
but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber. — Jacob M. Appel
Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it. — Jacob M. Appel
The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties. — Jacob M. Appel
Starshine's greatest challenge is deciding whether a woman is too young to soothe or too old to shame. Handling the men is much easier. They may feign interest in figures and photos, but their underlying interest is for breasts and thighs. A generous smile often adds an extra zero to a check; an additional inch of exposed cleavage can clothe five Laotian children. The vast majority of these men do not expect to purchase Starshine's favors. They are husbands, fathers, pillars of the community, the sort of upstanding middle-aged patriarchs who would rather castrate their libidos than compromise their reputations, and even if their three-digit donations could earn them a quickie with the canvasser, they would deny themselves the pleasure. — Jacob M. Appel
I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research
or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover. — Jacob M. Appel
He had a knack for expressing sober what most men only dared say drunk. — Jacob M. Appel
Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness. — Jacob M. Appel
Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win. — Jacob M. Appel
If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises ... — Jacob M. Appel
Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being. — Jacob M. Appel
The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all. — Jacob M. Appel
Nothing spices up one's sex life like having a partner. — Jacob M. Appel
I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ... — Jacob M. Appel
Another family crisis: The rabbit goes blind. — Jacob M. Appel
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing. — Jacob M. Appel
Life is about trade-offs," said the lunatic ... "The difference between happy people and unhappy people is that happy people accept the trade-offs and unhappy people complain about them. Personally, I prefer to be happy. — Jacob M. Appel
I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause ... — Jacob M. Appel
While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support. — Jacob M. Appel
If history judged nations by their pet theories, no one could ever doubt that Americans were creative. — Jacob M. Appel
A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms. — Jacob M. Appel
Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it. — Jacob M. Appel
Always warm up the audience with a joke ... If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke ... — Jacob M. Appel
Nobody loses weight eating anyplace with laminated menus. — Jacob M. Appel
Harlem sleeps late. — Jacob M. Appel
The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop. — Jacob M. Appel
It amazes him that life never offers completely smooth sailing, even for one day, a sinister cloud manages to creep its way over the horizon. And, what makes life even more mysterious, what truly probes the depth and complexity of the psyche, is that on an overcast day that one cloud would pass entirely unnoticed. — Jacob M. Appel
That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point. — Jacob M. Appel
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help. — Jacob M. Appel
One thing led to another. That was the only way to explain how Arnold Brinkman, who considered both professional sports and young children unjustifiable, had ended up at Yankee Stadium with a nine-year-old boy. — Jacob M. Appel
An American man endowed with sufficient wealth can purchase anything, but an American woman endowed with sufficient beauty does not need to. — Jacob M. Appel
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life. — Jacob M. Appel
Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress. — Jacob M. Appel
Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform. — Jacob M. Appel
This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence. — Jacob M. Appel
That was the one advantage of growing old - it let you be nasty with impunity. — Jacob M. Appel
There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery. — Jacob M. Appel
Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer. — Jacob M. Appel
Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy. — Jacob M. Appel
I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage. — Jacob M. Appel