Port Mortuary Quotes

“War has become our national industry, like automotives and steel and the railroads once were.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“Primum non nocere. First, do no harm.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“No doctor has the power to cause blood to clot or tissue or bone to regenerate or tumors to shrink. We don’t create, only prompt biological functions to work or not work properly on their own, and in that regard, doctors are more limited than a mechanic or an engineer who actually builds something out of nothing”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“Things end where they begin and begin where they end.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“The great Renaissance genius believed that art is science and science is art, and the solutions to all problems can be found in nature if one is meticulous and observant, if one faithfully seeks truth.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“allowed something as mundane as money, something as shameful as ambition, to change everything irrevocably and not in a good way—indeed, in the worst way. But I was young and idealistic. I was proud and wanted more, not understanding then that more is always less if you can’t be sated.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“told her we are instructed by what is around us if we are humble and quiet and have courage.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“the solutions to all problems can be found in nature if one is meticulous and observant, if one faithfully seeks truth. I have tried to teach my”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“and I suppose I’ll”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“Computers, robotics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, the more off the wall, the better,” she continues. “Because there’s no such thing as mad scientists anymore. I’m not sure there’s any such thing as science fiction. Come up with the most extreme invention you can imagine, and it’s probably being implemented somewhere. It’s probably old news.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“the problem is I’m never quite able to convince myself of any case I make against him, against anyone I care about. Catholic guilt.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“His way of flirting is to offend her whenever he can.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“The reason you can’t have a dog is the same reason it’s always been a bad idea,” Benton’s voice says from the dark front seat. “Your IQ drops about fifty points.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“This is what we’re up against, Kay,” Briggs says. “Our brave new world, what I call neuroterrorism, what the Pentagon is calling it, the big fear. Make us crazy and you win. Make us crazy enough and we’ll kill ourselves, saving the bad guys the trouble. In Afghanistan, give our troops opium, give them benzodiazepines, give them hallucinogenics, something to take the edge off their boredom, and then see what happens when they climb into their choppers and fighter jets and tanks and Humvees. See what happens when they come home addicts, come home deranged.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“we are instructed by what is around us if we are humble and quiet and have courage.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“a man shouldn’t tell a woman what to wear unless he’s Ralph Lauren.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“push buttons to turn on the flush-mount lighting built”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“People don’t really know what anything is really like until it really happens to them.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“As is true with everything else, whatever can be used for good most assuredly will be used for evil.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary

“whatever can be used for good most assuredly will be used for evil.”
― Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary