Disease Quotes · Page 48

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

— L. Neil Smith

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

— Danny Wallace

“Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has”

— William Osler

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine…

— Michel de Montaigne

Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.

— Rachel Caine

As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.

— T. K. V. Desikachar

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting…

— Orson Pratt

“There is only one guaranteed way to be sure if you are vitamin B12 deficient and that is to get your doctor…

— Steven Magee

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even…

— Margaret Chan

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We…

— Thomas Lovejoy

I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease…

— Reese Witherspoon

If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been…

— Charles Schumer

Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but…

— Anonymous

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks…

— Swami Vivekananda

Illness is something out of balance, rather than something within balance. It's been something that is created and it's been created for…

— Fred Alan Wolf

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores…

— Jack Vance

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

— Susan Sontag

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke…

— Bill Gates

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get…

— Marshall Goldsmith

Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body.…

— Avicenna

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations…

— Benjamin Franklin

There is no conclusive proof that nicotine's addictive... And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.

— Rush Limbaugh

The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

— Ory Okolloh

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines…

— Jenny McCarthy

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that…

— John Darnielle

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

— Samuel Johnson

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

— Heraclitus

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would be carried by one of the world's smallest animals:…

— Jack Handey

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

— David Agus

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a…

— Edward Jenner

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do…

— Lisa Gardner

The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

— Sengcan

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

— Eckhart Tolle

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

— Immanuel Kant

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

— William Shakespeare

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali