Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

What's scaring us now is the disease they are saying is coming,

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Arundhati Roy

Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

James Hill

We've never done anything on this scale before, ... This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world.

Samuel Smiles

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

Thomas Pogge

The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it.

Bob Dylan

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

Elizabeth Holmes

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

John Green

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

Donna Mills

Somebody like me doesn't get arthritis, doesn't get all the other diseases that come along. Well, it happened to me.

Laila Ali

Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.

She is doing extremely well, has no evidence of disease at all and we're very optimistic about her being cured.

Milosevic pointed out that during the last five years he had never used any such antibiotics, especially since he had never had leprosy or tuberculosis or any kind of infectious disease except for the flu.

Bruce Barton

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

Atul Gawande

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

So hopefully we can fix the disease process to start with.

Dorothy Dix

So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease

The polio-eradication initiative has shown the world that even in the poorest countries, widespread and debilitating disease can be defeated.

Andrea Barrett

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

This study shows that just reducing total fat intake does not go far enough to have an impact on heart disease risk.

This stimulation is similar to the way the nervous system normally increases heart function when triggered by emotional or exercise stress, or in diseases such as heart failure,

Pierre Corneille

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is tallow a remedy to be applied.

Laura Hillenbrand

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

Pamela Anderson

Tommy has the disease and never disclosed it to me during our marriage,

We are looking at an emergence of new diseases and a resurgence of old diseases, and redistribution of old diseases on a global scale.

Anne Wojcicki

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.

Roger Cook

To grow a lawn that greens up naturally each spring and that resists drought and disease, you need to foster a strong root system.