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Quotes About Disease

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
~ Seneca the Younger
I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
~ Paula Abdul
Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.
~ Richard M. Schulze
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
~ Russell Baker
The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.
~ Michael Shaara
... a thirst for power is the natural disease of monarchy.
~ Thomas Paine
We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.
~ William Osler
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
~ William Osler
Perversely, the greatest triumph in medical history—the germ theory of disease—destroyed the ideal of heroic medicine, replacing it with a kind of therapeutic fatalism.* As physicians were taught the bacterial causes of diseases, they also learned that there was little if nothing to do once a patient acquired one.
~ William Rosen
Sickness and disease are destroyed through the precious atonement of Jesus. O how we ought to honor the stripes of Jesus, for "with his stripes we are healed.
~ William Seymour
It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.
~ William Shakespeare
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestowUpon the foul disease.
~ William Shakespeare
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
~ William Shakespeare
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forthIn strange eruptions.
~ William Shakespeare
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
~ William Shenstone
You might fight your enemy—that had respect in it. You might even kill him—respect again. But to do what the wasicu did: afflict your enemy with disease, pen him up, starve him, and then rescue his body on the condition that he surrender his spirit
~ Win Blevins
To practice the one spirit with the Lord is the medicine to heal the disease of opinion.
~ Witness Lee
I even stopped walking to give some thought to the fact that everyone, after all, wants to be himself, so I too want to be myself, for example who would love syphilis, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, a syphilitic man also wants to be himself, namely a syphilitic, it is easy to say "I want to be well again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to say "I don't want to be who I am.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death.
~ Witter Bynner
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
~ Xavier Becerra
Hard work, says the Scottish proverb, never killed a man. People die of boredom and disease. There is nothing like an occasional all-night push to enliven morale – provided you are part of the push. Never leave the bridge in a storm.
~ David Ogilvy
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
~ David Ogilvy
world of poverty and hunger and crime and disease and greed and dishonesty and prejudice and war and genocide and religious bigotry and runaway population growth and abuse of the environment and immigration strife and you-get-the-leftovers educational policies and a hundred other horrors?
~ David Patneaude
The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain disorders, to a large extent numerous neurological afflictions often reflect the mistake of consuming too many carbs and too few healthy fats.
~ David Perlmutter