My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. — James Rainwater Copy Share Image
Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault. — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. — Georges Didi-Huberman Copy Share Image
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact. — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still… — Mary Calderone Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this… — Laura Ziskin Copy Share Image
If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden. — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse… — Tom Frieden Copy Share Image
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
I literally cried on Lisa Joy's shoulder when it ended. Just, "Thank you." Because those roles [like Dolores in the Westworld] are… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals,… — Josh Ross Copy Share Image
“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside,… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
“increases of the infectivity rate may lead to large epidemics.” This quiet warning has echoed loudly ever since. It’s a cardinal truth,… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The Law of the Few,... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image