Disease Quotes - Page 38

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.