Condell Memorial Hospital Quotes & Sayings

Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Live every act fully, as if it were your last. — Gautama Buddha

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons. — Karl Marx

Beauty could not love you back. People were not what they seemed and certainly not what they said. Madness was contagious. Memory served melancholy. The medieval was not so bad. Gravity was a form of nostalgia. There could be virtue in satirizing virtue. Dwight Eisenhower and Werner von Braun had the exact same mouths. No one loved a loser until he completely lost. The capital of Burma was Rangoon. — Lorrie Moore

The memory of tonight was as unblemished as new-fallen snow that I had to protect from careless footsteps. — Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for
to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em. — Will Rogers

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. — Cory Booker

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities. — Edsger Dijkstra

[Wagner] But the world, the hearts and minds of humankind,
Are subjects all men want to know about.
[Faust] What they call knowing, that I do not doubt.
But who dares speak his honest mind?
The few who ever did know anything
And we're such fools they gave their hearts free rein
And showed the mob what they had felt and seen,
Death on the cross they got or death by burning. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself. — Oscar Wilde

Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic. — Paul McCartney

Being on the spiritual path means you want to be a success in an existential sphere, not just on a social level. — Jaggi Vasudev

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers ... They use my tools. — Robert Moog

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. — A.R. Ammons