#hospital

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#charity #fire #flame #genial #hall

In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting. In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea. I liked the Irish way better. ↗

— C.E. Murphy

#humor #ireland #tea #humor

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#argument #attempting #basis #eight #five

Help yourself to a bottle of wine. They’re all empty.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hospitality #humor #wine #funny

Claire was going to hate me. Our son was sucked into the pits of hell while I was watching General Hospital. God damn you Brenda and Sonny for making me lose focus. ↗

— Tara Sivec

#general-hospital #gh #funny

I work in a hotel. I know what you’re probably thinking, and no, I am not a hooker. Not unless you’re not a cop.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #hooker #hospitality #hospitality-industry #hotel

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#could #creepy #every #feel #had

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#go #hospital #i #jumps #me

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#compensate #concentrated #cover #doctors #fallen

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#cause #constant #existence #family #fine