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Quotes About Prevention

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
~ Sally Field
Did you know there are 1.8 billion vaccinations given every year? Did you know up to half of those vaccinations are given with reused needles? Did you know we are spreading and perpetuating the very diseases we're trying to prevent? Imagine if there was a painless, one-use needle for a fraction of the current cost. You don't have to imagine it, we've created it. It's called PharmaJet, as this article shows …
~ Sam Horn
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
~ Samantha Morton
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it
~ Samuel Johnson
When doctors think they've eradicated a disease, they stop looking for it. So if the disease itself suddenly shows up again, they may not even recognize it; they may even mistake it for an entirely new one.
~ Samuel R. Delany
brain health specifically took me to neurologist Dr. Richard Isaacson, the director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell
~ Sanjay Gupta
You're suppose to stop her from doing stupid things, not helping
~ Sara Shepard
Of course, in that case, he had deserved it. She didn't care if he was from UCLA—what breed of idiot went out on the ice without a face mask?
~ Sarah Beth Durst
We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
~ Mehmet Oz
Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.
~ Rod Serling
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.
~ Mark Twain
For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.
~ George Pataki
Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.
~ Jodi Picoult
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
~ Roy Hattersley
For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.
~ Barack Obama
Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.
~ Diego Luna
Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.
~ Ron Chernow
Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.
~ Uwem Akpan
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.
~ Matthew Henry
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If we really desire a moral answer to the Holocaust, we do everything in our power to create a world in which it could never happen again. As
~ Marianne Williamson
Some 120,000 girls were shipped into Minneapolis for last year's Super Bowl, making it arguably the largest sex-trafficking event in the world.
~ Marianne Williamson
How we eat, how much we exercise, how we manage stress, our exposure to environmental and food-based toxins, and the structural violence or "obesogenic environment" that influences these factors are what is truly driving our diabesity epidemic.
~ Mark Hyman