Operation Quotes - page 14

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't. (Jill Scott)
Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation. View quote
Joe Murray
I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves. View quote
Joe Murray
Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks. View quote
Joe Murray
After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent. View quote
Joe Namath
My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays. View quote
Joey Bishop
You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. View quote
John Abizaid
I guarantee you that the people who watch 'Conan O'Brien' or who watch 'Entertainment Tonight' and probably a lot of these other programs have never heard of Operation Blessing. Maybe they have heard of UNICEF, and I'm sure they have heard of the Red Cross, but they haven't heard of this organization. View quote
John Tesh
Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans. View quote
Jon Meacham
One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses. View quote
Julius Erving
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator. (Leonard Woodcock)
On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa. View quote
Leopold Trepper
You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation. View quote
Andy Taylor
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better. View quote
Gary Wolf
We are now after 7 months operation making money here. View quote
Henry Wells
More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. View quote
Leonard Bailey
Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease. View quote
Mary Ann Mobley
What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the framework of the United Nations and follow the fundamental principles of international laws. View quote
Nong Duc Manh
There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. View quote
Roma Downey
The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects. View quote
Rosa DeLauro
There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you. (Raymond Bonner)
If there is one operation for a disease, you know it works. If there are fifteen operations, you know that none of them work. View quote
Sherwin B. Nuland
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater. View quote
Terrence McNally
(When asked if he would apologise for the Anti-Sikh riots) The fact of the matter is that innocent people died in 1984 and innocent people dying is a horrible thing and should not happen. The difference between Gujarat and 1984 was that the Government of Gujarat was involved in the riots. [...] I think that riots, as all riots, were a horrible event. Frankly I was not in operation in the Congress party. View quote
Rahul Gandhi
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation. View quote
Daniel Webster