Epidemics Quotes · Page 2

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

— Libba Bray

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

— Kurt Vonnegut

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

— Rihanna

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

— Judith Martin

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

— Sarah Schulman

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

— Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

— Anonymous

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

— Georges Didi-Huberman

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

— Michel Sidibe

Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this…

— Ava DuVernay

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to…

— Christian Slater

There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that.…

— Anonymous

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet,…

— James Lovelock

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a…

— Anonymous

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must…

— Marianne Williamson

We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there,…

— Larry Kramer

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen…

— Warren Buffett

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This…

— John Rosemond

We are losing the war against cancer... I would like to offer for your consideration the following legislative proposals on the following…

— Samuel Epstein

As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This…

— Scott Harshbarger

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of…

— Terence McKenna

You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies…

— Marc Forster

Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most…

— Maia Szalavitz

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was…

— Jane Swisshelm

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

— Jill Lepore

The Law of the Few,... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

— George Bernard Shaw

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

— Peter Piot

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

— Russell Conwell

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

— Michael Specter

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

— Richard Pryor

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

— Ethel Waters

Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it…

— David L. Katz

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I…

— Ashley Judd

The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've…

— Eric Schlosser

Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.

— Tedros Adhanom

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

— Jenny McCarthy