Disease Quotes
-
I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease, ... Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.
Eric Lander
-
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.
Edzard Ernst
-
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
James Goldsmith
-
Of course, there are diseases of which people die.
Serge Lang
-
I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.
Erik Spiekermann
-
How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.
Alice Tisdale Hobart
-
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine.
Eric Pianka
-
The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us.
Antoine Bechamp
-
Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.
William Foege
-
Consciousness is a disease.
Miguel de Unamuno
-
Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
Immanuel Kant
-
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
Michael Crichton
-
Heart disease is a foodborne illness.
Caldwell Esselstyn
-
Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things.
Evo Morales
-
It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
-
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 get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.
Heraclitus
-
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William Golding
-
There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.
Densey Clyne
-
I believe it’s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it’s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever.
Bill Gates
-
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."
William Thomas Councilman
-
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
Bono U2