Ovid Quotes

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day.

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

I have something called endometriosis, and I was told by my gynecologist that I needed to go on a specific diet if I didn't want to have any more surgery.

But if I'd flown back, I would probably have lost my leg because of the blood clots. I've got two scars down the side of my leg where they had to cut me open and pull them out.

You take a tube of the patient's blood, extracting platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, from it. It's yellow in color, but it does all kinds of good things for the body: It speeds up healing, fills out the face. I spray it into wounds and use it in rhinoplasty.

On collar wounds, we normally manage to save them, but they can take weeks to heal because they're so deep, and they sort of grow into the flesh under the arm.

I've had more than 200 stitches taken in my head.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it

I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, who have brought me elsewhere or with them.

I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

To atone, I teach and try to set an example... I love spreading this stuff around. Just because it's trite doesn't mean it isn't right. In fact, I like to say, 'If it's trite, it's right.'

I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way.

I'm just trying to matter and live a good life and make work that means something to somebody.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

It is impossible to do everything people want you to do. You have just enough time to do God’s will. If you can’t get it all done, it means you’re trying to do more than God intended for you to do.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.