Patient Quotes

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
Jean Kerr

Good, Job, Friendly

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Ellen DeGeneres

Patience, Learning, Mind

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.
Michael J. Fox

Husband, Happen, Challenge

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian

Experience, Medical, Wish

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
Mehmet Oz

God, Heart, Person

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Isaac Newton

Done, Thought, Service

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

Life, Family, Style

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
Ramakrishna

Away, Leave, Ask

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
James Hillman

History, Depression, Black

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Homer

Wise, Resolve, Perform

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
Earl Monroe

Game, Hurry, Quick

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
Mercedes McCambridge

Time, Wait, Alcohol

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Desmond Tutu

God, Children, Him

Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez

Love, Mind, Hard

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
Mary Pierce

Sometimes, Away, Lead

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Good, Wish

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman

Food, Book, Remember

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Gertrude Stein

Patience, Declared

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Change, Desire

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
Anna Benson

Marriage, Work, Ego

I'm not that patient sometimes. I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.
Heidi Klum

Sometimes, Hour, Miles

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
Charles Kingsley

Special, Used, While

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.
Alfred Adler

Neglect, Symptoms

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler

Truth, Freedom, Him

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
John C. Calhoun

Beware, Wrath, Adversary

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
Mike Huckabee

Work, Live, Wait

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Thomas Holcroft

Soul, Worse, Thou

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
Marian Wright Edelman

Parents, Become, Again

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
A. J. McLean

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