Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes

Alice Tisdale Hobart born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, Oil for the Lamps of China, which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912. ...more

Birth: January 28, 1882 - Death: March 14, 1967

To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

How much … did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

Topic(s): People , Ifs , Care

Commerce unites; religion divides.

Topic(s): Religion , Divides , Commerce

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Topic(s): Ifs , Healthy , Theory

nothing is so binding as pity.

Topic(s): Pity , Binding

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

Topic(s): Bondage

We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

Topic(s): Care , Moving , Health

we’ve got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

Topic(s): People , Way , May

What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

Topic(s): Ifs , Memories

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Alice Tisdale Hobart Quotes