The best Quotes by Ivan Illich

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Doctors & Medicine

Tools can rule men sooner than they expect; the plow makes man the lord of the garden but also the refugee from the dust bowl.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

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They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Vienna

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.

Spencer Hastings in Pretty Little Liars - Season 1 Episode 1

Hope Deep Quotes

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects,
always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.

I Corinthians - 13, 4-7

Love Hope

May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

Fred Young in Blow

Hope Fate & Destiny Wishes

And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we still hope...

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy

Hope

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

Henry Winkler

Relationships Expectations

The expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 Episode 13

Expectations

Let experience wash over you, absorb it like a sponge. Expect nothing, only then can you be prepared for anything.

Altered Carbon - Season 1 Episode 1

Expectations

No expectations, no disappointments.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Naturals

Expectations Disappointment

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

Christopher Miller

Expectations Wise Sayings

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

Expectations

Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 3 Episode 17

Miracles Doctors & Medicine

What would you prefer - a doctor who holds your hand while you die, or one who ignores you while you get better? I suppose it would particularly suck to have a doctor, who ignores you while you die.

Gregory House in Dr. House - Season 1 Episode 3

Doctors & Medicine

Sometimes, the cure is a little taste of the disease. The difference between medicine and poison sometimes is only dosage.

Arthur Harrow in Moon Knight - Season 1 Episode 2

Doctors & Medicine

I didn't become a doctor because I wanted to be god. I became a doctor because I wanted to save lives.

Derek Shepherd in Grey's Anatomy

Doctors & Medicine

Sarkov: "That's doctor-patient privilege."
Juan: "I thought you were a scientist."
Sarkov: "It's all the same. We all wear white coats and have trouble with eye contact."

Alex Sarkov in The Imperfects - Season 1 Episode 1

Doctors & Medicine

You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.

Earl Wilson

Doctors & Medicine

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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