Curieux De Nature Quotes & Sayings

Medicine's focus is narrow. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet - and this is the painful paradox - we have decided that they should be the ones who largely define how we live in our waning days. For more than half a century now, we have treated the trials of sickness, aging, and mortality as medical concerns. It's been an experiment in social engineering, putting our fates in the hands of people valued more for their technical prowess than for their understanding of human needs. — Atul Gawande

My teammates are the ultimate motivation. They mean everything to me. They are the reason I want to be at my best. — Julie Foudy

They ate dishes of orange rounds floating in a liqueur of their own juice and topped with cinnamon and pulverized cloves and almonds, — Hanya Yanagihara

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there. — Klaus Kinski

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. — Samuel Butler

But women are awful for the same reason men are awful: limited scope. — Carlene Bauer

You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid. — Manuel Moroun

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. — Robert Runcie

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power. — Peter Kreeft

Unique is not the same as alone. — G. Willow Wilson

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight. — J.K. Rowling

A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon