Withholding Care Quotes & Sayings

This fragile little angel stays here until I let her go. — Delilah Gardner

It was so easy to agree to what did not test us. — Ben Marcus

Altogether, forty-three of the fifty states confer some type of civil or criminal immunity on parents who injure their children by withholding medical care on religious grounds. Surprisingly, these exemptions were required by the U.S. government in 1974 as a condition for states to receive federal aid for child protection. — Jerry A. Coyne

She would lean her head against the back pillow of the sofa, thinking that she lay in his arms. You would not think that she'd remember his face but it would spring up in detail, the face of a creased and rather tired-looking, satirical, indoor sort of man. Nor was his body lacking, it was presented as reasonably worn but competent, and uniquely desirable. — Alice Munro

Today, the lay midwife is a response to a growing home-birth movement. In my own community most physicians have decided to withhold prenatal care from the home-birther. This is judgmental and vindictive. These doctors have decided that home birth is not safe, and by withholding prenatal care they are doing their best to make sure it is unsafe. Often it is lay midwives who step forward to fill the void and help eliminate the unnecessary dangers of home birth. They are essential for screening out women who really should not have a home birth. For considerably less money than a physician charges, they spend many more hours with a pregnant woman before, during, and after the birth. and in most places they courageously face the opposition of the established medical community. — Susan McCutcheon

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult to others? — George Eliot

Love. It is a word that means nothing and everything at the same time. — Aryn Kyle

I won't forget, he whispered, and I swallowed the lump in my throat. — Julie Kagawa

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them. — Eckhart Tolle

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like. — Lionel Trilling

I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them. — Dana Snyder

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work. — Nhat Hanh

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills. — John Roos