Harry Groener Quotes

Pembroke Is that why this came all this way? Ambition? Then you have it worse than any of us.

Lockhart What's that?

Pembroke The sickness. Your father saw the truth long before the rest of us. The pointlessness of the entire endeavor. We've all done terrible things. So many terrible things...

Patch Adams Last night with Rudy, I connected to another human being. I want more of that. I want to learn about people, help them with their troubles.

Dr. Prack That's what I do.

Patch Adams But you suck at it. You don't even listen to them when they talk. I wanna listen; I wanna really listen. You don't understand. I'm leaving.

Dr. Prack Hunter, if you leave my records will say AMA, that you signed out of this hospital Against Medical Advice.

Patch Adams And mine will say IDGARA: I Don't Give A Rat's Ass. And my name is Patch.

Pembroke To my fellow-members of the Board. A man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness, or go blind once he has the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn. We are the only species capable of self-reflection. The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts, we build, we buy, we consume. We wrap us in the illusion of material success. We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement. Superiority to other men. There is a sickness inside us. Rising like the bile that leaves that bitter taste at the back of our throats. It's there in every one of you seated around the table. We deny its existence until one day the body rebels against the mind and screams out, "I am not a well man." No doubt you will think only of the merger. That unclean melding of two equally diseased institutions. But the truth cannot be ignored. For only when we know what ails us can we hope to find the cure. I will not return. Do not attempt to contact me again. Sincerely, Roland E. Pembroke.

Hank Green Well, Mr. Lockhart, what do you make of that?

Lockhart Clearly he's lost his mind.

Wilson Our thought exactly.

Hollis Man goes for two-week spa vacation and has a complete mental breakdown.

Humphrey Who the hell takes the waters in the 21st century anyway?

Mr. McDougal You really trust me not to say anything?

Michael Sullivan Always trust a bank manager.

Mr. McDougal Well this is a pleasant surprise. I wasn't expecting another deposit until the end of the month.

Michael Sullivan Actually, I'm making a withdrawal.

Michael Sullivan And I want dirty money only, everything you're holding for Capone that's off the books. Open the safe.

Mr. McDougal You're insane. You know they'll find out who you are.

Michael Sullivan The name's Sullivan. You want me to spell it?

Volmer You're quite right... the water is toxic unless it's purified properly, that Baron's only problem was using unwilling subjects... we've come along way in the past two hundred years, now we have plenty of willing volunteers seeking to cure themselves of the ills of the world.

Pembroke I've never felt better in my life.

Volmer You see... Why would anybody want to leave?