Disease Quotes · Page 55

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

— Horace

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

— Jack Kevorkian

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

— Henry David Thoreau

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

— Henri Poincare

If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

— Brandon Bays

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

— Aeschylus

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am.…

— Mark McGrath

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

— Pierre Corneille

When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought…

— Greg Giraldo

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued…

— Paul Driessen

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that…

— Seneca the Younger

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that…

— Olympia Snowe

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out of treatment, the…

— Dick Cheney

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature;…

— Sarah Waters

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in…

— Jennifer Niven

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the…

— J. G. Holland

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by…

— Hans Zinsser

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert…

— Susan Sontag

“Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start…

— David Levithan

“(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Just as the capacity for experiencing fatigue has evolved to protect us from overexertion, the capacity for sadness may have evolved to…

— Randolph M. Nesse

“For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or…

— Hippocrates

What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing…

— Marianne Williamson

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

— Elizabeth Holmes

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

— Thomas Browne

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

— Carl Jung

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid .

— John McCain

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your…

— Louise Bourgeois

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.

— William Shakespeare

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Addiction is physical, mental and spiritural disease that affects every area of our lives.

— Anonymous

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the…

— Grover Norquist

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

— Paul Farmer

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself…

— Freddie Mercury

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in…

— Georgina Chapman

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

— Linda Ronstadt

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

— Shannon Fife