Isabella Bird famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.

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