Disease Quotes · Page 53

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

— Hippocrates

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

— William Osler

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family…

— Doug Davidson

It turns out, I have a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, which is a muscle-wasting disease.

— George Clarke

Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they…

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

— Mercedes McCambridge

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

— Bill Gates

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It…

— Eckhart Tolle

The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the…

— Neal Barnard

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's…

— Serge Lang

1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into…

— Howard Lyman

The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one…

— Ellen Gustafson

He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to…

— Diablo Cody

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting,…

— George Bernard Shaw

... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances…

— Michael Marmot

When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed…

— Michael Pollan

For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life…

— A. J. Green

If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign.…

— Brandon Sanderson

Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It…

— Nawal El Saadawi

If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the…

— Rajneesh

“I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you’re stupid. I think you’re…

— Shannon L. Alder

Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the…

— Linda Howard

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

— Anton Chekhov

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

— Ani DiFranco

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

— Democritus

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

— Alexander Pope

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure…

— Constance Baker Motley

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

— William S. Burroughs

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

— Jimmy Carter

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my…

— Rebecca Wells

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

— Walter Duranty

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

— Anonymous

Glaucoma is a thief of sight. Each day it steals from you precious memories - not of what was, but of what's…

— Jeremiah Lim

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

— Mark Twain

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson