A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years. — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
With the stroke of a pen in 2021, the Biden administration transformed the VOICE office into a support center for illegal aliens… — George Santos Copy Share Image
Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
It was a stroke of luck that there were about four to six leaders in power in the mid-'80s who really trusted… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a… — R. T. Rybak Copy Share Image
Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
I. Sure its a stroke. but it can also be a word, a statement, an anthem, a stab of defiance, a ray… — TOI Copy Share Image
With 'Little Accidents', I spent probably three months working with a physical therapist, just understanding, starting from square one, about the neurological… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that's too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate 'lo maximo' on the… — Sergio Garcia Copy Share Image
You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen?… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
When people hear that I'm a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. 'Will grandpa learn to walk again after his stroke?' 'How… — Sebastian Seung Copy Share Image
We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“It's like I've had a stroke. Do you think I've had a stroke?" "I don't think you've had a stroke." "But how… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one… — Josephine Harwood Copy Share Image
Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors. — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I have had hundreds and hundreds of stroke cases. My methods cured them--when they were so stiff they were almost dead. — Richard M. Schulze Copy Share Image
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
One day I'll do a Dorian Gray, and there will be a picture in the attic. I'll look like Helen Daniels from… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
I hate swimming, as a rule. I only do it because I have a bad back but, because my improvised 'stroke' is… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. But caregiving does buttonhole you;… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Such a suitable word, stroke. I'd heard it since childhood without fully understanding its meaning, but it sounded, even through a haze… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease,… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Strokes are categorized as either bleeding into the brain or a blockage in blood supply, known as an ischemic stroke. The latter… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or aware of my symptoms.… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape,… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really… — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I wasn't embarrassed that I'd had a stroke, but I just didn't want people to think I was milking it or looking… — Rod Laver Copy Share Image
I buy 1920s iridescent Scottish glass. I love the way the sun hits it every morning. You touch something and you know.… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
![“I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly condescending. His loss of language didn't mean he was any less a grown-up with adult feelings, experiences, worries, and problems. [p. 144]” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e55/diane-ackerman-1035_language_i-understood-the-therapists-were-trying_2065315.jpg)
