Disease Quotations | Page 3

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

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.

My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation.

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

My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis.

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

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.

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it's in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas,

Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government's wading into the food arena.

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America.

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.

I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

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.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

The outbreaks in those areas are being contained, ... There's still disease, but the disease is largely contained in hospitals.

We are proud to bring the world-renowned leader in diabetes care and education to the Las Vegas Valley. Diabetes is a major disease affecting our local community at a rate that exceeds both state and national norms. If not properly treated, it can be a life threatening and debilitating. We look forward to working with the Joslin staff in Boston to ensure that our care meets the standards of this international leader in diabetes treatment, research and education.

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.

West Nile has gotten a lot of attention lately because it's a new disease to America, ... It appeared around 1998 and has rapidly spread throughout the lower 48 states.

We started off doing this underground, handing them out in no central location. We started this because we believe that disease will easily spread without access to clean needles.

Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic, or the patient's liver has become cirrhotic, and what cirrhosis is, is the scarring of the liver tissue.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

Until today, patients with diabetes who need insulin to manage their disease has only one way to treat their condition.

Until today, patients with diabetes who need insulin to manage their disease had only one way to treat their condition. It is our hope that the availability of inhaled insulin will offer patients more options to better control their blood sugars.

While liver disease appears in his history, it does not appear that it has anything to do with his cause of death.

We found that patients with Alzheimer's disease had lower levels of physical activity earlier in life,

We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.

We felt it was very important to offer this line of products year-round because breast cancer is a disease that can strike at any time,

What makes cancer so hard in terms of really conquering the disease is its complexity. There are myriad genetic changes that drive the processes that are cancer, and every one of those can be a little different from one human to another.

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

With West Virginia holding one of the highest rates of heart disease in the nation, it's important to educate residents about ways they can improve their heart health. The program breaks the cycle of unhealthy habits and shows people not only how to manage heart disease, but prevent it.

We know a person can get the disease from a bird but we're not certain if a person can get it from a dog.

And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.

Wounds that fail to heal are a hidden epidemic as our population ages and people become vulnerable to diabetes, vascular disease and many of the other conditions that lead to chronic wounds.

Worldwide, the need for public health efforts to reduce the disease burden from infectious and emerging diseases is urgent and enormous.

We're still not sure whether CMI is due to a single disease or pathological process. But this study has identified an intriguing association between CMI risk and diagnosis of depression and anxiety disorders prior to military service.

We're starting to see young people with old people diseases. These diseases include hardening of the arteries, heart attacks, and diabetes.

We're starting to look at this as a disease process, ... You can beat a disease. You can't beat developmental process.

We want to present valuable information about the disease and the potential consequences if it occurs in the United States, and more specifically, the effect it could have on Alabama's $8 billion poultry industry. Our speakers will present everything you need to know about bird flu and some things you may not want to know.

We have to get the time between the identification of the individual disease outbreaks and the slaughter of infected animals down as far as we can get it and to try and get it within twenty four hours.

The richer we are, the longer we live. And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

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.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

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.

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

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

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

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

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

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

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.