If seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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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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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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It’s an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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If it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one’s fellow travelers.
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I’ve had my share of angels.
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