Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEPray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
More Abraham Verghese Quotes
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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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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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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This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
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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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Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.
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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.
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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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