Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhen I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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What we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did.
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A discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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