Empurrando Quotes & Sayings

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about. — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it. — Camille Paglia

Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way. — Amy Klobuchar

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride. — Larry Craig

The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die
it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives. — Annie Dillard

Today, my love, I am too tired to write for you. You will find in your heart a letter, several pages, full of silence. Read it slowly. The light of this day wrote it for me. In it, it si just about you and the rest coming to me each time I look to you, far away, hundreds kilometers from here. — Christian Bobin

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them. — Steve Ross

I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!" — Mike Birbiglia

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us. — Anselm Kiefer

tattoos are like bumper stickers in some respects. Their wearers want to tell the world something. — Barbara Delinsky

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. — Gerrit Smith

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee. — Francis Quarles

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders. — Bernard Rudofsky

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises ...
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays — Toni Morrison

The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds. — Ken MacLeod