Fancy Medicine Quotes & Sayings

In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day. — Fred Rodell

He called it a mastodon (which means, a touch unexpectedly, "nipple-teeth"). — Bill Bryson

I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts. — Babatunde Adebimpe

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster ... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself. — Chris Cleave

If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government. — Pietro Badoglio

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting. — Gayle Forman

It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

[Roland] Barthes turned the thable on the author, saying no only the a book needs a reader to wake it into life, but that in so doing the reader becomes nothing less that the author, who reveals in the book's hermeneutic possibilities, releases them and so becomes its own creator. — Robert Rowland Smith

Your HEART Can Overcome Anything.
So In All That You Do ... Be BRAVE! — Timothy Pina

The emotional garbage I had carried all of those years - the prejudice and the denial, the shame and the guilt - was dissolved by understanding that the Other is not other at all. — John Howard Griffin

SUN WAS in the room when he woke. He sat up and looked toward the bars, but the bars weren't there. Just a window, lower than it should have been until he realized he was up — Dennis Lehane

I understand the fear surrounding this topic, but the fear is misplaced. We shouldn't be afraid of speaking about this, we should be more afraid of what not speaking about this can lead to. It can ruin relationships, destroy families, and in the most dire circumstances it can end lives. — Adam Schwartz

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction. — Charles C. Harpe

Mrs. Cadwallader said, privately, 'You will certainly go mad in that house alone, my dear. You will see visions. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. To be sure, for younger sons and women who have no money, it is a sort of provision to go mad: they are taken care of then. But you must not run into that. I daresay you are a little bored here with our good dowager; but think what a bore you might become yourself to your fellow-creatures if you were always playing tragedy queen and taking things sublimely. Sitting alone in that library at Lowick you may fancy yourself ruling the weather; you must get a few people round you who wouldn't believe you if you told them. That is a good lowering medicine. — George Eliot