"You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications."

-- Atul Gawande

#Three Quotes #Wells Quotes #Complication Quotes

“You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.”
“I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.”
“But of course in my world nothing is political. And everything's about policy and governance. And maybe a bit of politics.”
“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.”
“Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.”
“There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.”
“That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.”
“I'm always a sucker for a love story.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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