Jules Verne Quotes

Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

Jules Verne

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• The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Health
  • Care

• Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • You
  • Health
  • Mental Health

• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Family
  • Today

• The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Party
  • Health
  • Care

• In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • School
  • Health
  • Same

• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • God
  • Satisfied

• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Health
  • Goal

• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Health
  • Depressed

• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

• After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Health
  • Husband
  • Smile

• The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Men
  • Health
  • First

• It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Help

• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Family
  • Parents

• Women are smart enough and strong enough to make their own health care decisions and should be able to make these decisions in private, consulting with their doctors and families as they choose.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Health

• There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Good
  • City
  • Health

• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Job
  • Imagine
  • Only

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • City
  • Health
  • Measure

• I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Very
  • Gender
  • Representation

• Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Motivational

• 'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Dark

• Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

  

  Mabel Osgood Wright
  • Garden

• Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Health
  • Imagine
  • State