Best 539 quotes in «patient quotes» category

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

Never to allow a patient to be waked, intentionally or accidentally, is a sine qua non of all good nursing.

Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but a pneumonic man who is your patient.

One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.

Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.

Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.

One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.

[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

Patience lives in the gap between our experience of an event and our response to that experience.

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Patient endurance attends to all things.

Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

People are starting to reflect upon the power of emotions on illness and I have always felt a direct connection between emotion and body. It is fascinating that neurologists are starting to tell their patients that yes, they are sick, the symptoms are there, but it is probably happening because an emotion is not coming out the way it could and should.