Syndromes Quotes · Page 5

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in…

— Margaret Cho

Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then…

— Augusten Burroughs

I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born…

— John C. McGinley

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to…

— Sarah Palin

Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It is a…

— Jack White

Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down…

— Edward Barbanell

The combination to be on guard for is young and bored, or young and resentful. You can spot them at social gatherings,…

— Craig Clevenger

[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir]…

— Nat Hentoff

I've worked in several different places, most of my experience comes from spending eight summers at a camp for adults with a…

— Arthur Bradford

He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could…

— Gregory Maguire

The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses…

— Ben Shapiro

This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve…

— Daniel Schultz

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want…

— Mark Burnett

Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in…

— Gary Numan

The biggest problem is getting beyond the "you can't" syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you're on your way to flying.…

— Bill Drayton

As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end,…

— Gerald Fischbach

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age,…

— Tim Howard

You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do.…

— Eckhart Tolle

... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of…

— John E. Sarno

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very…

— Ben Okri

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

— Muhammad Ali

Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.

— Euclid

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

— Noam Chomsky

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

— Rebekah Brooks

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

— Tony Attwood

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

— Anonymous

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and…

— Marc Maron

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and…

— Peter George Peterson

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down…

— Lauren Potter

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very…

— Christopher Eccleston

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people…

— Tony Abbott

As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have…

— Sebastiao Salgado

One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls…

— Krafft Arnold Ehricke

When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop…

— Quentin Bryce

The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes,…

— Ron Reagan

The term syndrome generally appears to be a constellation, or collection, of similar traits or behaviors within an individual. So, savants do…

— Darold Treffert

Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his…

— Aaron T. Beck