Miriam Toews Quotes
I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.Miriam Toews
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Hans Fischer -
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley -
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers -
Being an only child is a disease in itself.
G. Stanley Hall -
Oliver . . . well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?
Rachel Caine -
I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.
Alicia Keys
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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 -
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
Martha Gellhorn -
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black.
Hippocrates -
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato -
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato -
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.
William Shakespeare -
Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
Carlo Collodi -
But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls -
I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
Sandra Cisneros -
Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner; but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.
Sean Elliott -
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.
Rene Dubos -
If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
Leslie Earl Maxwell -
Music is your only friend until the end...
Jim Morrison The Doors -
I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it.
Harry Dean Stanton -
I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.
Miriam Toews