The Doctor Quotes

For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.

Technology makes people equal, it gives them a fair advantage.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life

Truth in the heart of heresy

Doctors are great--as long as you don't need them.

Lord, give me strength and ability to understand when I can heal, but give me the wisdom to understand when my profession is useless.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

A doctor is a patient

For some people, being mean to others is the point of their lives.

Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life. Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death. Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.

Jaws 4 is so bad it makes Jaws 3 look like Jaws 2.

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

Now... Just run.' [said the Doctor.]One of the things you learn very quickly around the Doctor is never to question him when he says that word. You just run. It's almost like breathing.

There are no monsters, Doctor, ' she spluttered.Yeah, There are, ' he said. 'Some of them are just better at hiding than others. And then there are the ones we wouldn't know if we saw them.

This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

If you want to be happy, then be happy. Misery is a choice.

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.

East or West, Home is BestNorth or South, Hand to Mouth

Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You'd have liked him!

Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous.

[Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place, ' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

Who is this man?''Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.''No? Spelt like Yes?''That's right.

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

To the world, it doesn’t matter that much. Until you remember that it means the world to the patient. One exact world, bright and full of sounds, per person. That is what is lost.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

Unintended jealousy is merciless.

I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things.

For life, too, is only an instant, Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –

...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

The only person who can pull you down is yourself. If you choose to pull yourself down, please don’t complain.

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.

There is no higher authority.

It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.

I am the keeper of my husband's history.

History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.

But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

We're all stories in the end.

If you doubt a man's ability, you limit their potential.

His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.