A Quotes
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“A divine vengeance on us all.”
Source: Ariadne
“A divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.”
“A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.”
“A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.”
“A divorce is much like a ten-car pile up. It affects not just two drivers but a whole slew of perimeter vehicles that get caught in the chaos. Not even innocent bystanders come out unscathed.”
Source: The Single Dad Detour: Directions for Fathering After Divorce
“A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.”
“A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party”
Source: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
“A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.”
“A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.”
“A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.”
“A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.”
“A Doberman Pinscher can sometimes spontaneously run riot, often even leaving the field entirely. After a short time, he will come back with an amazed look in his eyes and happily jump on his desperately calling handler.”
Source: K9 Working Breeds: Characteristics and Capabilities
“A docile dog can be slapped by a courageous chicken.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.
Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“A doctor, a teacher and a politician have no caste.”
“A doctor can be a doctor today and they will be a doctor tomorrow. But an actor, well you're not working at anything right now, whereas the doctor is going to have their job tomorrow, for the most part. So there's the insecurity of that, and you have to go where the work is.”
“A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.”
Source: All My Sons: Drama in Three Acts
“A doctor heals more than the body; through compassion, they restore hope and dignity. Medicine is most noble when guided by empathy, not profit. The finest treatment is one that honours both life and humanity.”
“A doctor heals not just with medicine, but with empathy and understanding. Compassion often becomes the most powerful treatment of all. Patients remember not only the cures, but the care and attention given during their most vulnerable moments.”
“A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.”
“A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.”
“A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.”
“A doctor is not criticized for describing the manifestations and symptoms of an illness, even though the symptoms may be disgusting. I feel that a writer has the right to the same freedom In fact, I think that the time has come for the line between literature and science, a purely arbitrary line, to be erased.”
“A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.”
“A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.”
Source: Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way
“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”
“A doctor once asked me: 'Charlie, what do you think your problem is?' “Doc,' I said, '…you’re the problem!”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.”
Source: Take Me With You
“A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.”
“A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.”
Source: Blue Nights
“A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.”
“A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past
“A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653
“A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete.”
“A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.”
Source: Collected letters: 1926-1950
“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.”
“A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.”
Source: Les Misérables
“A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.”
“A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.”
“A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created”
“A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.”
Source: The Descendant
“A doctrine of expression rather than one of suppression makes a stronger appeal to man.”
Source: An Introduction to Philosophy
“A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.”
“A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.”
“A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.”
Source: Photographs of a Lifetime
“A Dodger uniform just doesn't look good with a cummerbund.”