Disease Quotes · Page 52

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of…

— Clifford Allbutt

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

— Sandra Cisneros

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

— Charles Fourier

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years…

— David Agus

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

— Alice Hamilton

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

— Susan Sontag

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.

— Ron Rosedale

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

— Monica Potter

I do good in the world - at least I try to. I speak on behalf of women, and I know I…

— Suzanne Somers

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of…

— Michael J. Fox

My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when…

— Henry Fielding

We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to…

— Robert E. Wells

In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and…

— Helen Clark

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a…

— Jerry Saltz

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on…

— Murasaki Shikibu

I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years…

— Ted Turner

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker…

— Neal Stephenson

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing,…

— Mark Twain

All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin.…

— David Hume

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept…

— Hamilton Jordan

Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat…

— David Sheff

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like…

— Jacob M. Appel

Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is…

— Maneka Gandhi

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me…

— Tracey Gold

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

— David Nabarro

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

— James Dobson

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

— Ambrose Bierce

“When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.”

— Richard Diaz

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

— Thomas Szasz

As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

— Patti Davis

diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

— Florence Nightingale

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

— Tony Porter

By the Grace of God, I am cured of the disease of egotism, and Death no longer terrifies me.

— Guru Arjan

Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your…

— Andy Kindler

“It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.”

— William Osler

“I am very confused and it's from a very very long time… ... Already is a disease and it's spreading around the…

— Deyth Banger

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

— Rene Dubos

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

— George Carlin