"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."

-- Margaret Thatcher

#Trying Quotes #Leeches Quotes #Disease Quotes

“To live without love, compassion, or any other spiritual value creates a state of such severe imbalance that every cell yearns to correct it. Ultimately, that is what lies behind the onset of disease; the body is sending a message that something lacking in the presentâ€”an imbalance existing somewhereâ€”has given rise to highly visible, unarguable, physical symptoms.”
“HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.”
“You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.”
“One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .”
“What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, everybody knows this!”
“As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the flag. However, after returning to Iran, sadly, I learned about a very different America, an America that most Americans have no idea exists. For the first couple of years this was hard to accept, and it was really painful in some ways.”
“A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.”
“Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.”

Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”

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