Brotherston Medical Quotes & Sayings

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency. — Pierre Bourgault

When you're married to somebody iconic, people tend to notice him. — Pattie Boyd

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all. — Mahatma Gandhi

If man's capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and unseen, might be very different. — G. Willow Wilson

Quote taken from Chapter 1:
Alma idly wondered if he'd blow his nose, too.
He did. Twice. He made it honk, the sound reminding Alma of Harpo Marx squeezing his bulb horn.
Isabel darted a look at Alma, giving her the don't-you-dare-giggle squint.
Alma dug her fingernails into her palm, the inappropriate laugh rising from her throat as she looked up at the ceiling. Blue refolded his handkerchief and returned it to inside his seersucker jacket. Thankfully, Alma's urge to laugh subsided. — Ed Lynskey

Read my book and you shall know thee — Oscar Sanders

The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother. — Adriana Trigiani

People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions. — Andrew Zimbalist

How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope. — Philippe Petit