I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist. Just because you don't know what the right answer is, maybe there's even no way you could know what the right answer is, doesn't make your answer right or even okay. It's much simpler than that. It's just plain wrong.
S1 E21Three Stories
Do you think he was dead? Do you think those experiences were real?
Define real. They were real experiences. What they meant... Personally, I choose to believe that the white light people sometimes see, visions, this patient saw. They're all just chemical reactions that take place when the brain shuts down.
You choose to believe that?
There's no conclusive science. My choice has no practical relevance to my life, I choose the outcome I find more comforting.
You find it more comforting to believe that this is it?
I find it more comforting to believe that this isn't simply a test.
It is in the nature of medicine that you are gonna screw up. You are gonna kill someone. If you can't handle that reality, pick another profession. Or finish medical school and teach.
I like my leg. I've had it for as long as I can remember.
S1 E22Honeymoon
[Coffee mug in hand, standing next to the whiteboard with one arm draped over it] Foreman! Are you going to contribute, or are you too tired from stealing cars? [Foreman and Chase stare at her] I'm being House. It's funny.
[Deadpan] I know. You made milk come out of my nose.
I’m not over you. You were, you were the one, you always will be. But I can’t be with you.
So I’m the guy, but you want the other guy, who by definition can never be the guy.
What's great about you is that you think you're right, what's frustrating about you is you're right so much of the time.
Straight from the bladder, that's as fresh as it gets.
You know we should do things, throw a ball around or something. Guy stuff.
We could go for a run together.
OH! It's Oscar Wilde!
Wow, this pissing contest is really turning me on.
Here's to women. Can't live with them, can't kill them and tell the neighbors they're stripping in Atlantic City.
Damn straight. [they chug their beers, trying to finish first]
I'm definitely taller.
I have more hair.
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