Health Quotes

• I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, health insurance cards, and a Burke Williams card for when I want to go to the spa!

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Business
  • Light
  • Blue

• As a people we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • People
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Organization
  • Gun
  • Safety

• Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • World
  • Health
  • Challenge

• I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • America
  • Giving
  • Simple

• We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Work
  • Health

• Over and over again, I hear from Oregonians that we need real health care reform that provides every American with access to quality, affordable care.

  

  Jeff Merkley
  • Real
  • American
  • Quality

• I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friends
  • High
  • Survival

• Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Health

• And so one becomes, or I become, anyway, slightly obsessive, particularly about my health, because you wouldn't want to read the letters people write when you're off and they're disappointed - it's so awful, the guilt one feels for not being there.

  

  Elaine Paige
  • People
  • Health

• I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.

  

  Kathleen Turner
  • Support
  • Health

• The great mistake of the reformers is to believe that life begins and ends with health, and that happiness begins and ends with a full stomach and the power to enjoy physical pleasures, even of the finer kind.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• There isn't a lot of honesty when it comes to discussing Obamacare. Too many Republicans lie about the implications of the health-insurance program and dismiss out of hand the reasons a massive overhaul of the long-time system is necessary.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hand

• You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

  

  Katie Couric
  • Light
  • Serious
  • Personality

• I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

  

  Andrew Lansley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Shadow

• Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Health

• The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Important
  • Agency
  • Functions

• America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

  

  Christopher Bond
  • Up
  • America
  • Future

• We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs.

  

  Doug Elmendorf
  • Health
  • Responsibility

• The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Disease
  • Principles
  • Lifting

• I'm prairie-dwelling, pro-union, pro-health care, and pro-education.

  

  Ed Schultz
  • Education
  • Health

• Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.1

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Health

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