Pipas Quotes & Sayings

There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed. — P. J. O'Rourke

Ll that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing. I supposed old Edmund Burke had meant to include women in that. And if he hadn't, well, screw him. — Rachel Caine

There is nothing in anything that I have ever written that could be reasonably construed as an incitement to violence against anyone. — Robert Spencer

Your persistence is your belief in yourself. — Brian Tracy

Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense. — Joyce Carol Oates

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant. — Edith Hamilton

In her mind, men were no different than droughty weather or a sudden burst of rainless storm. — Robert Olmstead