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Quotes About Prevention

Work helps prevent one from getting old. I, for one, cannot dream of retiring. Not now or ever. Retire? The word is alien and the idea inconceivable to me. I don't believe in retirement for anyone in my type of work, not while the spirit remains. My work is my life. I cannot think of one without the other. To retire means to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest are the best remedy for age. Each day I am reborn. Each day I must begin again.
~ Nicholas Delbanco
Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
~ Jack Wild
For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
~ Bill Gates
I think the future of life lies in the hands of the biochemists, when there won't be any cures, but rather preventives.
~ Christine Jorgensen
The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.
~ Christopher Pike
Era mejor evitar las heridas desde un principio que tener que tratarlas
~ Trudi Canavan
Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is teaching men not to rape. Go to the source and start there.
~ Kurt Cobain
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
~ la rochefoucauld viii
We know today about nutrition and we know about exercise. There's no reason for anybody to be sick and tired, fat and out of shape -- it's ridiculous! This has got to be taught in the schools. It's got to be taught in kindergarten. That's when kids should first get the idea that the most important thing in your life is your health and your body.
~ lalanne jack
Many people have arthritis and rheumatism; they get bum knees, a bum back. A lot of guys get a little pain in the toe or knee and then they won't exercise. Well gee, you have 640 muscles in your body. There may be a few exercises you can't do, but there are hundreds you can do! Too many people make excuses like I am too old, or I don't have the time, or it costs money. Then when they get sick they go to the doctor and want a shot in the backside to make them healthy.
~ lalanne jack ii
My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.
~ lalanne jack iii
I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
~ Cat Cora
That reminds me. Make sure you drink a lot of water while you're there, or you'll dehydrate fast. And if you find yourself not peeing, or your urine is dark in color, you're not drinking enough." The last thing in the world she'd ever wanted to discuss with Zane Alexander was the color of her pee.
~ Cat Johnson
In a strange twist on the concept of flu prevention, 'vaudeville theaters were only allowed to be half full – members of the audience had to leave the seat on either side empty so that they would not breathe on one another. To further protect themselves many wore surgical masks, so that even when they laughed the sound was muffled.
~ Catharine Arnold
Medical science had little to offer in the way of prevention or cure, apart from the process of disinfection, notification and isolation as recommended by Dr Niven. There was little consensus on treatment apart from the traditional recourse to bed rest, opiates and folk remedies, while to make matters worse, significant individuals refused to take the threat of Spanish flu seriously.
~ Catharine Arnold
fight cancer. (Research has shown that children who suffer abuse are about 50 percent more likely to get cancer than other children.)
~ Catherine Gildiner
If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Blade Runner 2049 is an example of science fiction as magical thinking: whites fear that all the sins they committed against black and brown people will come back to them tenfold, so they fantasize their own fall as a preventative measure to ensure that the white race will never fall.
~ Cathy Park Hong
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
~ Cato the Elder
He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
~ German proverb
I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.
~ Giuliana Rancic
Quando se neutraliza um atentado antes que ele se produza, ninguém se apercebe disso, ao passo que reagir com força, denunciar os culpados, isso sim, produz capital político.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
In the United Kingdom, the Osteoporosis Society reports that more women die from hip fractures due to osteoporosis than from cancers of the cervix, uterus, and breast combined.
~ Glenn A. Gaesser