Disease Quotes · Page 36

His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

— Maggie Stiefvater

When I was 10 I had a bone disease called osteomyelitis; they said if they didn't operate, I had 24 hours to live.

— John Bishop

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

— Ambrose Bierce

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and…

— Maggie Kuhn

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a…

— Ralph Abernathy

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

— Rumi

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

— M. Scott Peck

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

— Gary Johnson

Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact.…

— June Goodfield

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases…

— Susan Sontag

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression,…

— Jimmy Carter

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well…

— Maxim Gorky

Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault…

— Paul Stamets

“Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability…

— Emily Thorne

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old.…

— Ann Richards

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which…

— James Arthur Ray

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite…

— Dean Koontz

I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's…

— John Muir

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our…

— Rachel Carson

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness -…

— Virgilia Peterson

I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything…

— James Howard Kunstler

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's…

— Gertrude B. Elion

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said,…

— Dick Vitale

The hardest part of your journey to success will be telling people your crazy dreams and ideas. But I've found as soon…

— Karni Liddell

Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and…

— Henry E. Sigerist

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

— Edward Abbey

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

— Daniel Guerin

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

— Pearl S. Buck

“The supplement industry is the biggest threat to the pharmaceutical industry.”

— Steven Magee

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

— Andrew Weil

I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox

— David Foreman

COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

— Robert Morley

You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome.

— Robin Williams

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats.

— Rush Limbaugh

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

— Sophocles

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

— Phyllis Chesler

Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching.…

— Peter Thiel