Brawley Quotes & Sayings

Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans - often rich Americans - consume too much healthcare, often unwisely, and sometimes to their detriment. The American healthcare system combines famine with gluttony. — Otis Webb Brawley

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. — Etgar Keret

Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God - He sees, hears and remembers everything. — Suzy Kassem

I think everybody is covering their [posteriors] with the Enron scandal and it was very convenient that Sept. 11 came along to deflect the fact that they should never have been in the White House in the first place. What happened in the election was completely corrupt. — Sandra Bernhard

Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don't call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence? — Otis Webb Brawley

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.' — Fetty Wap

Your past does not define your future. — Jennifer Barnes Maggio

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. — John Ruskin

My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shopping. — Danielle De Niese

They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong. — Ronald Reagan

There are future lives. It is not necessary to cram everything into this lifetime. You can enjoy this lifetime, go with the flow, and know it will lead you to a better life in your next incarnation. — Frederick Lenz

When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm. — Otis Webb Brawley

I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars. — Shaun David Hutchinson

I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag. — Ian Watson

How do you move on from something like that?" How do you deal with losing all the people you love?"
"You don't, she says. "Not like anyone expects you to."
Grandma Brawely signs and rests the frame on the bed. 'Life goes on with or without you, and that's just the reality of it. You never move on, you just keep moving forward. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise. — Immanuel Kant

Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us
physicians, patients, and communities
to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.' — David Satcher

It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs. — Archibald Alexander

When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men. They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity. — Manly P. Hall

Almost as remarkable as the hoax itself, and indicative of the enormous cultural power of its perpetrators, is the fact that the revelation of Rigoberta's mendacity has changed almost nothing. The Nobel committee has already refused to take back her prize, many of the thousands of college courses that make her book a required text for American college students will continue to do so, and the editorial writers of the major press institutions have already defended her falsehoods on the same grounds that supporters of Tawana Brawley's parallel hoax made famous: even if she's lying, she's telling the truth. — David Horowitz

Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter! — Louise Hay

I don't drink hot beverages. — Gary Cohn