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Quotes About Fever

Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
The forest is like a sentient creature drawing breath around me. The moon's brightness has a sound. It rings in the sky. I've had a fever, which has been hard, but it has left my mind clearer than before. There's another way of seeing the world, like looking through the bottom of a glass.
~ Jennifer Egan
a world where the same fatigue and the same fever played over every face.
~ Émile Zola
Teu sangue sempre calmo não conhece as ardências da febre. Tuas veias estão cheias de água gelada. Mas as minhas fervem e, diante de semelhante frieza, pulam.
~ Emily Bronte
All rather humbling, she added ruefully. Here we are in the golden age of medicine - making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria - and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow.
~ Emma Donoghue
Here we are in the golden age of medicine—making such great strides against rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria—and a common or garden influenza is beating us hollow. No, you're the ones who matter right now. Attentive nurses, I mean—tender loving care, that seems to be all that's saving lives.
~ Emma Donoghue
Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone and as irrational as a headless hen.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Sólo se sabía prisionero de aquel íntimo deseo, de aquel sueño, de aquella fiebre de la que nadie hacía partícipe. Pues esta sed era mayor que todas las sedes, y esta hambre, mayor que hambre alguna.
~ Ana María Matute
There's only one thing I love more than race day: the morning after! The morning after the Marathon, New York catches running fever. The Hudson River bike path on Manhattan's west side was like a traffic jam of joggers on Monday morning. No doubt the great race fires up the endurance athlete in all of us - and it's beautiful.
~ Stephanie Ruhle
If the president was back, then the fever was truly over. If the president was back, we were safe. I threw my arms around Nathaniel and planted a big kiss on his cheek. He pulled back in surprise. "Do you always do that when the president rides by? If so, I'll take a job working for him." I blushed and looked down at my feet.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Have you considered what you might do to help? You have recovered, so you cannot get the fever again. You are young and strong. We have a real need for you." "How can I help anyone? I'm just a girl." As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I wanted to pinch myself. The first time anyone treats me like a woman and I respond like an infant.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Dr. Kerr rose off the bed. "Damned fool," he growled. "Excuse me?" I said. "Rowley, the imposter. Autumnal fever indeed. Your mother has yellow fever. There's no doubt at all.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
~ Lord Byron
Hopkirk, like many physicians of his day, also prescribed quinine to treat the flu. "In quinine," he wrote with great certainty, "we have a drug that not only controls fever-producing processes allied to fermentations, but also exerts a definite anti-toxic action on the specific virus of influenza itself.
~ Jeremy Brown
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
~ Jeremy Taylor
At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.
~ Jerry Coleman
I think it's more a kind of fever,' says Albert. 'Nobody really wants it, but all of a sudden, there it is. We didn't want the war, they say the same thing on the other side – and in spite of that, half the world is at it hammer and tongs.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I think it is more of a kind of fever," says Albert. "No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn't want the war, the others say the same thing—and yet half the world is in it all the same.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I think it's more a kind of fever, Nobody really wants it, but all of a sudden, there it is. We didn't want the war, they say the same thing on the other side – and in spite of that, half the world is at it hammer and tongs. - Albert Kropp
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I think it is more of a kind of fever, says Albert. No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn't want the war, the others would say the same thing--and yet half the world is in it all the same.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever
~ Erik Larson
Fever coast, Mr Forshaw – mangrove swamp and mud. Not worth it." They kept a distance off the reef, well out of mosquito range.
~ Andrew Wareham
All these daydreams reminded him of the scenes which play through your mind in a fever. At the edge of the loch he stood for a moment
~ Ann Cleeves
When the surf is really good, it's hard for me to concentrate on work. So I really have to watch when and where I surf - I won't get anything done if I get the fever. Then it's like I come into work and I'm wet and waterlogged and ready for lunch.
~ Chris Carter