physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking,… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
“For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a… — Leanne Pooley Copy Share Image
I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on… — George Combe Copy Share Image
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery,… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking… — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension… — Mahbub ul Haq Copy Share Image
Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it… — Irene Tomkinson Copy Share Image
Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia,… — Richard E. Besser Copy Share Image
I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing… — Sean Elliott Copy Share Image
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation. — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has totally cured me of the fatal disease of egotism. Glorious and great are… — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you… — Leroy Hood Copy Share Image
