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Disease
Total Quotes : 365
Life
Incurable
Life is an incurable disease.
- Abraham Cowley
Moral Obligation
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
- Adam Schiff
Traitors
Learned
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
- Aeschylus
Poison
Suffers
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
- Aeschylus
Trust
Never
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
- Aeschylus
Immune
Infected
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease.
- Alan Huffman
Some
Purely
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
- Alan Moore
Government
Mankind
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
Being
Foreigner
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
- Alden Nowlan
Think
I Think
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Our World
Ill
It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Social Networks
Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Think
Born
Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
More
Diseases
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Education
Cut
It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.
- Alex Newell
Some
Wiped
Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
- Alex Pareene
Diet
Some
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- Alexander Pope
Tragic
Treatment
Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
- Alice Dreger
Providing
Caused
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
- Alice Hamilton
Always
Prehistory
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
- Alice Miller
Think
Other
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.
- Alicia Keys
Constant
Increased
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.
- Alonzo Mourning
Touching
Some
Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.
- Alvin E. Roth
Loss
Had
The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.
- Alvin Toffler
Been
Thyroid
I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
- Amanda de Cadenet
Particularly
Makes
The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.
- Amy Hoggart
Need
Took
When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.
- Amy Purdy
Like
Having
Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
- Amy Robach
Concerned
Dad
I'm concerned about heart disease. I've raised money to fight heart disease; my dad died of it.
- Anderson Cooper
Level
Committed
I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
- Andie MacDowell
Africa
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.
- Andrew Mwenda
Civilization
Other
Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
- Andrew Weil
Want
Poster Child
I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
- Andy Grove
Social
One Night
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
- Andy Warhol
Awesome
Diseases
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
- Anne Wojcicki
Why
Whole
There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?
- Anne Wojcicki
Death
About
You are not just about death and disease.
- Anne Wojcicki
Having
Lot
We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
- Anne Wojcicki
Will
Insights
Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.
- Anne Wojcicki
Want
Clearly
There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.
- Anne Wojcicki
Work
Complaining
If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.
- Anne Wojcicki
Conservative
I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
- Anthony Fauci
Middle
Infection
Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.
- Anthony Fauci
Country
Critical
You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'
- Anthony Fauci
Run
Call
I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'
- Anthony Fauci
War
Adventure
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Which
Meant
When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
- Antony Beevor
Nothing
More
There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
- Ara Parseghian
Within
Happen
I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.
- Arjun Kapoor
Like
Infectious
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
- Arthur Erickson
Think
Very
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
- Arthur Hugh Clough
Bad
Apt
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.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Drinking
Instance
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
- Charles Duhigg
Been
Which
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.
- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Sometimes
Fact
The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread.
- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Green
Country
It's not going to help the country to be subsidizing uneconomical forms of energy - whether you call them 'green,' 'renewable' or whatever. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.
- Charles Koch
Shadow
Alzheimer
In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.
- Charlie Pierce
Veterans
Helping
Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans - these are not partisan issues.
- Chris Gibson
Against
Mild
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.
- Chris Kilham
Treat
Otherwise
I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion.
- Chris Smith
Other
Mental
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.
- Chris Wood
Through
Sure
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
- Constance Baker Motley
Makeup
Genetic
Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
- Corbin Bernsen
Reason
Ours
There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.
- Coretta Scott King
Want
Like
I don't like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, 'I didn't want to kiss Corey; I didn't want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.'
- Corey Haim
Minorities
Been
The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.
- Cory Booker
Like
Leukemia
What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.
- Craig Sager
Genetics
Need
We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.
- Craig Venter
Other
In The Past
In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate.
- Craig Venter
Largest
Wide Range
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
- Cynthia Kenyon
More
Against
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
- Daniel Akaka
Certainly
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
- Daniel Barenboim
Suffering
Causes
Grief causes suffering and disease.
- Daniel D. Palmer
Other
Amount
Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!
- Daniel Pinkwater
Before
Contracted
I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.
- Daryl Hall
Real
No Question
There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.
- David Agus
Treat
Toward
I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease.
- David Agus
Health
Last
In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.
- David Agus
Unique
Human Body
I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.
- David Agus
Death
Horror
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
- David Byrne
Country
Extremism
What we have seen with Islamist extremism, whether it is in Mali or Somalia or Afghanistan, is that the disease is not necessarily the individual country. The disease is the Islamist extremism, and that's what we have to fight; that's the narrative that we have to beat.
- David Cameron
Violated
Bodies
When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.
- David H. Koch
Benefits
Lower
I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.
- David H. Murdock
Alzheimer
Cure
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
- David Hyde Pierce
Young
Which
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
- David Mitchell
Work
Them
Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.
- David Oshinsky
Crusade
Turned
The March of Dimes turned a disease not nearly as prevalent as childhood cancer into a national crusade. Polio was not that widespread.
- David Oshinsky
More
Than
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
- David Perlmutter
Border
Offers
As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.
- David Perlmutter
Which
Been
Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.
- David Perlmutter
Small
Encompassing
The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.
- David Perlmutter
Discover
Though
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
- David Viscott
Never
Pick
Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.
- Davinia Taylor
Love
Death
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
- Dawn Powell
Gambling
Civilized
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
- Dean Inge
Help
Other
Preventing cardiovascular disease can help free up critical resources for treating HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.
- Dean Ornish
Anybody
Facing
What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.
- Debbie Ford
Manic
Depressive
Manic depressive is a disease.
- Debbie Reynolds
Work
Doing
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
- Deborah Cox
Politics
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
- Jim Doyle
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