Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

Dennis Kucinich

We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

Brad Pitt

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Will Estes

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.

Jared Diamond

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

What we really don't want to see is an epidemic of panic.

Chuck Klosterman

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Christopher McDougall

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

There has been a level of complacency that has helped the epidemic spread.

There is no need for panic. This is not an epidemic spread from human to human.

Bill Gates

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Bill Gates

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

Bill Gates

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

Women started smoking seriously 25 years ago, and the lag time for this epidemic has kicked in.

We're still on the upslope of the epidemic curve.

We've got an epidemic up here of underage kids getting booze.

We can't let it go because it's escalated. It's like an epidemic right now.

Malcolm Gladwell

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

Malcolm Gladwell

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

At this stage there is no flu epidemic threatening society.

Julie Gerberding

Other countries, like Hong Kong, have just not been able to keep the epidemic under control, and I wish we knew why,

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

George Bernard Shaw

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

The ministry has taken necessary measures for the big flu epidemic which the world expects.

Sarah Parker

I liked the idea of this epidemic of not-so-young men still living at home.

The North American West Nile virus epidemic persists.

Mike DeWine

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Jeanne Phillips

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

Katha Pollitt

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Peter Piot

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

Rachel Cusk

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

Nathan Wolfe

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.