Gertrude B. Elion Quotes

There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

Moments. All gathering towards this one.

In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one's been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one's life will never be the same.

The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

The ideal 'New Yorker' profile is a person, an interesting person, at a critical point in his life.

'Breathless' was an important milestone in my life.

I'm not here if Bill Hunter never forced my hand in wrestling. It was a pivotal point in my life.

We always have that one special moment that could be anything that changes our lives forever.

The first goal is always very important.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

A turning point in modern history.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.