Disease Quotes · Page 39

This is not the time to be using magic. Science will lead us to the source of the disease.

— Gaius

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

— James Dobson

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

— David Nabarro

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

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

— Patti Davis

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the…

— Jonathan Harnisch

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going…

— Charles Colson

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background…

— Paul Dudley White

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my…

— Dick Cheney

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs,…

— Ron Wyden

In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression…

— Andrew Weil

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized…

— Andrew Weil

Standing on "tip toe", one stands not firmly. Straining in stride, one cannot walk far. Flaunting of deeds, one is unfavorably noticed.…

— Laozi

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring…

— Bill Vaughan

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great…

— Calvin Coolidge

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -…

— Hans Zinsser

I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented…

— Erasmus Darwin

Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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

— Andy Kindler

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

— Guru Arjan

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no…

— Cassandra Clare

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

— Bill Gates

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

— Anonymous

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

— Marcia Angell

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

— Alice Hamilton

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

— William E. Gladstone

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

— Chris Smith

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

— George Bernard Shaw

I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

— Paula Abdul

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

— Phil Gingrey