Disease Quotes - Page 11

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

The Neurosciences do not exist exclusively to understand man's nature. They also serve a social function, such as in the treatment of the cerebral diseases or when helping us to have a more pleasant and constructive life. It is a thing that one could explore well.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

Do not overeat; that invites disease.

They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.