Disease famous quotes

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Health #Years #Disease

We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
-- Aaron Antonovsky

#Meaningful #Healthy #Disease

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Numbers #Disease #Causes

Life is an incurable disease.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Life #Disease #Life Is

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
-- Achille Castiglioni

#Design #Secret #Disease

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
-- Adelle Davis

#Health #Two #Disease

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
-- Adelle Davis

#Health #Disease #Persons

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Past #Disease #Littles

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Self #Doe #Disease

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Fall #Church #Disease

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
-- Alain de Botton

#Intelligent #Insanity #Disease

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Substance #Disease #Ill

Being a foreigner is not a disease.
-- Alden Nowlan

#Disease #Foreigners

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

#Health #Psychics #Disease

The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
-- Alex Steffen

#Environmental #Goes On #Disease

For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.
-- Alexander Monro

#Blood #Brain #Disease

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
-- Alexander Pope

#Luxury #Disease #Succeed

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Heart #Body #Disease

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
-- Alice Hamilton

#House #Hull #Disease

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
-- Alice Hamilton

#Illinois #Occupation #Disease

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.
-- Alice Tisdale Hobart

#People #May #Disease

Every man's disease is his personal property.
-- Alonzo M. Clark

#Health #Men #Disease

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.
-- Alonzo M. Clark

#Long #May #Disease

Love is a disease – ultimately you get sick of each other
-- Amit Abraham

#Love Is #Sick #Disease

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
-- Andrew Greeley

#Death #Two #Disease

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.
-- Andrew Taylor Still

#Law #Disease #Should

To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease.
-- Andrew Taylor Still

#Doctors #Disease #Should

Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.
-- Anne Wojcicki

#Risk #Disease #Alzheimer

Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.
-- Anodea Judith

#Disease #Spirituality #Symptoms

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,
-- Anthony Atala

#Tissues #Disease #Patient

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Fun #Disease #Solutions

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Running #Disease #Hiv

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Disease #Conservative #Predictions

The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.
-- Antoine Bechamp

#Disease #Causes

Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.
-- Antonio Gotto

#Disease #Cardiovascular Disease #Complication

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

#Children #School #Disease

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

#Bipolar #Development #Disease

Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.
-- Aretaeus of Cappadocia

#Light #Rays #Disease

Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
-- Arnold Sommerfeld

#Childhood #Disease #Youth

Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Thinking #Suggestions #Disease

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Passion #History #Disease

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Science #Doctors #Disease

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
-- Aubrey de Grey

#Disease #End Of Life #Ends

I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage.
-- Aubrey de Grey

#People #Suffering #Disease

Check disease in its approach.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Disease #Checks #Approach

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

#Disease #Herbs #Lack Of Knowledge

Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.
-- Avicenna

#Pain #Health #Disease

Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.
-- B. J. Palmer

#Men #Medicine #Disease

Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.
-- B. J. Palmer

#Medicine #People #Disease

The preservation of health is easier than the cure for disease.
-- B. J. Palmer

#Disease #Easier #Cures

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.
-- B. J. Palmer

#Believe #Disease #Germs

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
-- Ban Ki-moon

#Disease #Poverty #Steps

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
-- Barry Commoner

#Environmental #Disease #Pollution

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
-- Barry Manilow

#Men #Trying #Disease

I hope that you will be asked to participate in a trial at some stage in your disease
-- Ben Goldacre

#Trials #Disease #Stage

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
-- Ben Jonson

#Music #Mean #Disease

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Mistress #Disease #Embrace

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Disease #Herbs #Cures

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
-- Benjamin Rush

#Physicians #Disease #Made

Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.
-- Bernard Jensen

#Mind #Disease #Weak

It's not about curing the disease, but healing the life; then the physical benefits come.
-- Bernie Siegel

#Healing #Benefits #Disease

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Psychology #Disease #Should

Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
-- Betsey Johnson

#Heart #Love Is #Disease

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.
-- Betty Rollin

#Tears #May #Disease

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.
-- Bill Foster

#Basketball #Negative #Disease

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Cancer #Mind #Disease

I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.
-- Billy Connolly

#Humorous #Mad #Disease

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.
-- Biz Stone

#Disease #Figures

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.
-- Blake Mycoskie

#Dream #Important #Disease

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.
-- Brennan Manning

#Jesus #Disease

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!
-- Bret Harte

#Love #Men #Disease

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

#Modern Life #Disease #Fool

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
-- Bruce Lee

#Mind #Technique #Disease

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

#Physicians #Needs #Disease

Heart disease is a food-borne illness.
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

#Heart #Disease #Illness

I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.
-- Caldwell Esselstyn

#Heart #Disease #Vegan

Alcoholism is the disease of more.
-- Caroline Knapp

#Alcohol #Disease #Alcoholism

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
-- Carre Otis

#Anorexia #Demand #Disease

There is no disease so destructive as lust.
-- Chanakya

#Lust #Disease

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.
-- Charles Jencks

#Hate #Teeth #Disease

If other cows with mad cow disease were slaughtered, we wouldn't know where to begin looking for people who might have been affected, .. With a comprehensive tracking system, we would.
-- Charles Schumer

#People #Mad #Disease

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
-- Charles V. Chapin

#Two #Disease #Host

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.
-- Charles W. Pickering

#Cancer #Years #Disease

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimers - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.
-- Charlie Pierce

#People #Dames #Disease

You can't keep one disease and heal two others. When the body heals, it heals everything.
-- Charlotte Gerson

#Two #Body #Disease

All chronic and degenerative diseases are caused by two and only two major problems, toxicity and deficiency.
-- Charlotte Gerson

#Two #Disease #Problem

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

#Orderliness #Dirt #Disease

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.
-- Chester A. Arthur

#People #Disease #Attention

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.
-- Chiang Kai-shek

#Heart #Skins #Disease

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.
-- Chico Resch

#Sports #Hockey #Disease

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

#Disease #Herbs

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
-- Chris Hedges

#Use #Disease #Violence

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.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Laziness #May #Disease

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
-- Chrystos

#Thinking #Culture #Disease

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!
-- Clark Adams

#Religion #Atheism #Disease

This is how diseases are usually spread. Someone spits on a guy, somebody has sex with a chimp. Next thing you know . . . AIDS.
-- CM Punk

#Sex #Guy #Disease

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

#Kissing #Heathers #Disease

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
-- Craig Raine

#Powerful #Viruses #Disease

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

#Age #Disease #Increase

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
-- Dan Savage

#School #Disease #Life Is