Abraham Verghese Quotes

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

Abraham Verghese

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What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes... is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who've never seen one or seen the effects of one.

Stanley A. McChrystal

PeopleMeWorldAmericanNeverSeen

People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me.

Trombone Shorty

PeopleMeSoundSeemLikeAbsorb

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

Robert Wilson

I AmTheatreDoingKindNeverWould

My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.

Michael Strahan

GolfHobbiesLeisureActivities

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Janine Benyus

StressBuildingTreesBridgesNow

The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.

Jonathan Demme

GreatJobDemocracyMediaJournalism

There's, you know, there's an ideology behind Ultron that makes him more unique that just a bad guy. He doesn't wanna just kill the Avengers. He doesn't wanna just destroy the world. He has these monologues and these beautiful speeches that kind of embody a certain mentality about what's wrong with humanity.

Chris Evans

BeautifulWorldHumanityYouBad

Don't wait for the perfect time to start making changes to your life; the time is now.

Chris Gardner

LifeTimeWaitStartPerfectNow

What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.

Corey Haim

GoodGirlKissMeSwimmingBetter

Black Lives Matter, as a network, will not, does not, has not, ain't going to endorse any candidates. Now if there are activists within the movement that want to do that independently, they should feel free, and if that's what makes sense for their local conditions, that's fantastic.

Alicia Garza

FreeBlackFeelNowWantMatter

I have a strong work ethic.

Willie Aames

WorkStrongWork EthicEthic

I was a precocious child.

Pippa Evans

ChildPrecocious

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