Differential Diagnosis Quotes & Sayings

Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition — Poul Henningsen

Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch. — George S. Kaufman

The differential diagnosis of catatonia According to an old story, there are three different types of baseball umpires. The first says: "I call them lballs and strikes] as they are"; the second says: "I call them as I see them"; and the third says: "What I call them is what they become. — Max Fink

(I)f you try to treat the medical problem you *think* you see without fully exploring the differential diagnosis -- call(ed) "speculation on a foundation of assumption" -- you can kill your patient. — Judy Melinek

When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all. — T.A. Uner

President Bush demanded that Kerry apologize. Can you imagine that
Bush demanding an apology for someone stumbling over his words? ... Kerry should have tried the Bush strategy: say so many stupid things, no one cares anymore. — Jay Leno

If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone. — Anne Sexton

I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace. — Edward Weston

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down ... — R.K. Narayan

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know. — Joan Ryan

Did you hear what I said?"
"I'm still getting over being chased by a bear." The bear was nothing compared to seeing Lori naked.
"Right." Then she pulled on her jeans. — Terry Spear

Live Fast, Love Hard, DieYoung (And Leave A Beautiful Memory). — Faron Young

You are what you are seen to be. — Erik Spiekermann

Modern spiritual consciousness is predicated upon the fact that God is gone, and spiritual experience, for many of us, amounts mostly to an essential, deeply felt and necessary but ultimately inchoate and transitory feeling of oneness or unity with existence. It is mystical and valuable, but distant. Christ, though, is a thorn in the brain. — Christian Wiman