Vradal Loft Quotes & Sayings

The Affordable Care Act is here to stay. — Barack Obama

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection. — Colin Powell

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four. — Nora Ephron

Positive life, positive actions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You know, a TV show is a slow build. — Ray Romano

People were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that's what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from. — Sheena Iyengar

The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing - is uncertainty. With all that we know nowadays about people and diseases and how to diagnose and treat them, it can be hard to see this, hard to grasp how deeply uncertainty runs. As a doctor, you come to find, however, that the struggle in caring for people is more often with what you do not know than what you do. Medicine's ground state is uncertainty. And wisdom - for both the patients and doctors - is defined by how one copes with it. — Atul Gawande

This immoral system, how do you get outside it? Option one, you drop out, sever the connections. They got that far in '68, okay? People went as far with that as they could, to say, I'm free, you're free, kumbaya and barbaric yawp and yadda yadda, and look what happened. The problem with the whole Rousseau trip is that man is primordially a social animal, in the sense of clan or tribe. Marx says this somewhere. You detach completely, you not only find yourself way out on a limb, against your nature, but you've lost any power for group resistance. And eventually, you come crawling back, clutching credit-card applications, begging to be let in. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Thus is the earth at once a desert and a paradise, rich in secret hidden gardens, gardens inaccessible, but to which the craft leads us ever back, one day or another. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me. — Dan Shechtman

I'm a gambler at heart. That's my life. — Kirk Kerkorian

Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood. — Eleesha

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely. — Khalil Gibran