Hospital Quotes

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital. — Carrie Fisher

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

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully. — Kate Millett

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ... — Katharine Whitehorn

I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too. — Holly Cupala

I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital. — Charles Lindbergh

Regardless of the country it is practised in, most of hospital medicine is painting over the cracks rather than fixing the wall. — Benjamin Daniels

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday. — Jo Brand

A lot of my friends were gay, so I was spat on on the bus daily, and I ended up in hospital a couple of times from being beaten up so badly. — Dev Hynes

remember when my little sister first came home. But I don't remember trying to put her in a box so we could mail her back to the hospital. My — Katherine Applegate

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out. — Jesse Jackson

The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills — Dean Koontz

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill. — Ringo Starr

I will rather have a hospital in every city to cure people of diseases on daily basis than sitting in church and expecting miracles.. — Sunday Adelaja

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people', you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. — Neal Barnard

A board constituted as the board of Sydney Hospital is constituted is not a suitable body to have control of an institute of medical research. — John Eccles

It was rare for a patient to readjust successfully to normal life after a period spent in a mental hospital. — Paulo Coelho

You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives. — Philip Roth

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years. — Mike Quigley

Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls. — Elbert Hubbard

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. — Mark Hyman

Mr. Persichetti was a night nurse at the state hospital, inspired — Alice McDermott

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick. — Samuel Goldwyn

The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside. — Alfred Jarry

He was lucky in a way. It wasn't long and drawn-out. No months in a hospital hooked up to machines. — Ransom Riggs

No plumbline could fathom the depths of my faithlessness !! LMS says this to the rector who comes in to visit him in hospital as an old man !! — John Francis Byrne

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible. — Glen Mazzara

My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. — Oscar Isaac

No one laughs at God in a hospital, — Regina Spektor

the church community is a hospital for recovering addicts to selfishness. — Winfield Bevins

One question on hospital admittance forms really gets me. "Sex: Male or Female?" Do I want to be in a hospital where they can't tell the difference? — Ronnie Shakes

C. diff can sometimes be life-threatening, even in healthy young adults. — J. Thomas LaMont

If Castle Dracula screwed a hospital, this would be the bastard offspring. — Larissa Ione

I work in a hospital as a patient transporter to make ends meet for my three kids. — Tom Guiry

If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital. — Marsden Wagner

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff. — Stevie Smith

Love shouldn't be safe — Elizabeth Webber

This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time. — Annie Dillard

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people? — Rachel Vincent

You should be able to choose which hospital you go to. — Andrew Lansley

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home. — Candice Bergen

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves. — Zaha Hadid

The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital. — Jeff Raz

...about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go. — Carrie Fisher

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way. — Vance Havner

Like, you're never alone here. But also, you're never with people. It's possible this isn't a hospital-specific problem, come to think of it. — John Green

After two days in the hospital, I turn to the nurse. — W.C. Fields

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors. — Jimmy Carter

Why indeed should we perpetually be thinking whether things are good for us, as if we were patients lying in a hospital? — Henry James

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt. — Carine Roitfeld

I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with. — George Best

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills. — Janette Turner Hospital

Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners. — Ann Landers

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness. — Raquel Cepeda

At midnight, I'm standing outside the door to his cell. Hospital room. — Suzanne Collins

Overhead announcement at psychiatric hospital: Lithium is no longer available on credit. — Earl Mac Rauch

I am not spending my final days in a hospital, nor will I turn my own house into one." Doctor — Kathryn Stockett

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident. — Christopher Buckley

The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing. — Rick Scott

It is generally accepted that harm from doctors - not including risks from hospital germs - accounts for more deaths than any single cancer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital. — Chris Bohjalian

I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital, — Ryan White

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind. — William Carlos Williams

There's nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment. — Anne Wojcicki

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. — Henry David Thoreau

You get a compound fracture in Colorado where I live, and you can probably be in a hospital within a matter of hours, certainly within a day. — Jon Krakauer

He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed — Michael Thomas Ford

If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head. — Miriam Toews

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. — Steven Wright

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet. — Dave DeBronkart

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. — Carol Grace

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital. — Toni Onley

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health. — Paul Farmer

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me. — Kate Forsyth

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. — Sam Donaldson

When I was presenting 'Animal Hospital,' the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife's mascara to darken it. — Rolf Harris

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

How exhausted I am suddenly! - though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling - almost - exhilarated. — Joyce Carol Oates

I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit. — Abigail Breslin

The world is crammed with messages. We'll never have time to read them all. — Janette Turner Hospital

DDP, while your in the hospital screaming in pain, your wife will be on her back screaming my name! — Scott Steiner

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life — George Chuvalo

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. — Thomas Browne

Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the living, — Neil Gaiman

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another. — June Carter Cash

Every hospital smells the same, like cotton balls dipped in alcohol sprinkled with death. The — Rebekah Crane

Two choices. Sleep in the goddamn car, or end up unconscious in the hospital. I know which one I'd prefer." And it's not the car. He — Emma Chase

Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying ... . She — Ford Madox Ford

The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the director of the hospital. — Victor Hugo

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams

He was taken to St. Lawrence Hospital and died the next day. He never regained consciousness. — Bill Bryson

My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months. — Heber J. Grant

$13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding. — Frank A. Oski

After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini. — Tank Abbott

The medicalized version of mortality, though, insists that you get into a wheelchair when you are in a hospital. — Anonymous

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet. — William Ernest Henley

People won't buy insurance until they're sick. If you can call on your way to the hospital and get coverage, it's not really insurance at that point. — Angela Braly