Disease Quotes - Page 25

Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

The gods have become our diseases.

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.

Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.