Gawande Books Quotes & Sayings

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices. — Bill Vaughan

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all. — Robert Koch

My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community. — Wolfgang Tillmans

Psalm 29:10 is another reminiscent literary reference to the ancient Egyptian heritage of the Jews' cow-worship faith — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states. — James Madison

Every new day brings new strength, new dreams and new opportunities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we're innately capable of. — Sharon Salzberg

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp. — Jeff MacNelly

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it. — Meg Cabot

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity. — Charlotte Mason

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. — Aldous Huxley

I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I'm usually buying my books in at least two formats. — Atul Gawande

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss. — Joe Bousquet

Opera and church recitals are options, of course, but they require some initiative and arrangement: tickets and schedules and so forth. I am not good at that; it's rather like fixing a three-course meal for yourself - perhaps even lonelier. — Joseph Brodsky