Disease Quotes - Page 34

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets lack [fats and proteins] or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases -- common in develop-ing countries -- cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.

The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.