Contracted Quotes

67 Contracted quotes by 65 unique authors

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect,… — Jack Abbott
Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man.… — Barack Obama
In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to give me a… — Nick Thune
Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart. — Gil Fronsdal
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept… — Sam Kean
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and… — Benjamin Disraeli
No. Of all the people who worked for PDM since most of it was sub contracted work, they were all young tradesmen. This is what… — John Wayne Gacy
Male homosexuals have seduced and abused millions of underage boys. Their unclean sexual habits and ultra-promiscuous lifestyle have resulted in spreading the worst communicable plague… — David Duke
We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine… — Mitt Romney
Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired… — John of Damascus
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that… — Thomas Jefferson
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether… — Hippocrates
We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a… — Evan Davis
My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. — David Alan Grier
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon… — Robert Toombs
I could not help wondering in my own mind....how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes - and… — Charles Dickens
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. — Jonathan Swift
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. — Jane Yolen
The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but… — Albert Camus
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day… — Zadie Smith
Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them. — Robin Cook
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.… — John Adams
As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream. — Jodi Picoult

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