Canterbury Tales Physician Quotes & Sayings

For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities. — E. M. Forster

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. — Alessandro Baricco

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. — Al-Ghazali

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton? The idea both amused and horrified Jazz. — Barry Lyga

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. — Oscar Wilde

I thought liberation had to do with going out into the world and assuming male duties, not with delegating part of my load. The result was a terrible fatigue, as witnessed today by the millions of women of my generation who question feminist movements. — Isabel Allende

He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted. — Cora Carmack

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated. — Robert M. Hutchins

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. — Charles Saatchi

That's why I'm compelled to tell this story - don't we all have one secret that has shaped us we are burning to reveal? - to convince myself that I'm entitled to my own life. (pg 4) — Jill Bialosky

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action. — Ralph Ellison

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway. — Robert Sternberg