Laura Lea Quotes & Sayings

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught. — John Dryden

A study led by the Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis asked the doctors of almost five hundred terminally ill patients to estimate how long they thought their patient would survive, and then followed the patients. Sixty-three per cent of doctors overestimated survival time. Just seventeen per cent underestimated it. The average estimate was five hundred and thirty per cent too high. And, the better the doctors knew their patients, the more likely they were to err. — Atul Gawande

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when a man climbs a glass mountain, it's not usually for the damn golden apple. It's for the person he gives the apple to. — Laura Florand

Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the afternoon, and then - fire, earthquake, death! As if it were Sodom and Gomorrah! All our work undone, all the work - What are these Martians?
What are we? I answered, clearing my throat. — H.G.Wells

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left. — Nhat Hanh

Oh! A mystery is it?' I cried, rubbing my hands. 'This is very piquant. I am much obliged to you for bringing us together. "The proper study of mankind is man" you know — Arthur Conan Doyle

We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be! — Mehmet Murat Ildan