(295 quotes found)
“Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.”
William Osler
“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”
“A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color”
William Bolitho
“The most discouraging feature of the mania for book-collecting is, that it grows by what it feeds on, and becomes the more insatiable the more it is gratified.”
William Mathews
“There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.”
James Coates
“The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.”
Milan Kundera
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
Christopher Lasch
“By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.”
John Dewey
“The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.”
David Mamet
