Disease Quotes - Page 31

Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

If you have a disease and suddenly start getting ads for cures for that disease and it's an embarrassing disease - all that kind of stuff it just gets into that zone of autonomy or privacy where you feel a sense of freedom to be who you want to be.

... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

Disease does not recognize congressional districts or party affiliation.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.

Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

optimism is a disease

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?