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Quotes About Curable

Is that all it means to you?" Marthe said. "To me it means there is no disease. It means it's curable, provided you root out the cause of it. Is it not worth an effort? No one would bring back a man doomed to blindness, but what if he isn't?
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.
~ Stephen Richards
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
~ Dorothea Dix
I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.
~ David Feherty
Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Enthusiasm, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The first is that fourteen major mental illnesses are now treatable. Two of them are curable, either by specific forms of psychotherapy or specific drugs. The two curable ones—people always ask—are probably panic disorder and blood and injury phobia. So the first great thing that psychology and psychiatry did in our lifetime was to be able to relieve an enormous amount of suffering.
~ John Brockman
Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
~ Betsey Johnson
All medical men who have studied the matter know that punishment only aggravates the trouble. Sometimes the cause is physical, but usually it is psychological, and only curable by removing some deepseated and probably unconscious grievance. But most people enjoy punishing anyone who irritates them, and so the medical view is rejected as fancy nonsense. The
~ Bertrand Russell
Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.
~ Stephen Richards
Love's a disease. But curable.
~ Rose Macaulay
Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases are curable, and in event of an incurable ailment or injury, a new body may be provided--for a fee. (In the event of your murder, you will be furnished with a new body at the expense of your killer.)
~ Charles Stross
I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.
~ John Malkovich
In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it, because it is now the only reason people are dying.
~ David Furnish
Democrats can be divided into those who believe wickedness is curable and those who deny it exists.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila