Ninth Doctor Quotes & Sayings

You get to decide who you want to be. No one else. — M.A. Larson

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed. — Roger Bannister

There is a child in all of us. — Willard Wigan

Struggle toward the capital-T Truth, but recognize that the task is impossible - or that if a correct answer is possible, verification certainly is impossible.
In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can see only a part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete. And Truth comes somewhere above all of them, where, as at the end of that Sunday's reading;
the sower and reaper can rejoice together. For here the saying is verified that "One sows and another reaps." I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work. — Paul Kalanithi

In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can see only a part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete. And Truth comes somewhere above all of them, where, — Paul Kalanithi

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons. — Rick Riordan

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? — Chanakya

[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.]
The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words. — Steven Moffat

Resolutions expressing Parliamentary approval of every Treaty before ratification would be a very cumbersome form of procedure and would burden the House with a lot of unnecessary business. The absence of disapproval may be accepted as sanction, and publicity and opportunity for discussion and criticism are the really material and valuable elements which henceforth will be introduced. — Arthur Ponsonby

It seemed crazy that something so big, so seemingly permanent, could be knocked down by a little wind and rain. — Morgan Matson

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts. — Lois Greiman

Some people live more in twenty year than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person. - The Doctor — Stephen Greenhorn

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star. — Michio Kaku

The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue. — William Avery

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. — Paul Theroux

Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed. — Victor LaValle