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Quotes About Disease

It would be a good time to replace the drug war with something more constructive. The cure offered the drug war today has probably been more harmful and done more damage than the disease.
~ George McGovern
On n'a rien compris à la maladie, tant qu'on n'a pas reconnu son étrange ressemblance avec la guerre et l'amour: ses compromis, ses feintes, ses exigences, ce bizarre et unique amalgame produit par le mélange d'un tempérament et un mal.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Fear is our shared lovelessness, our individual and collective hells. It's a world that seems to press on us from within and without, giving constant false testimony to the meaninglessness of love. When fear is expressed, we recognize it as anger, abuse, disease, pain, greed, addiction, selfishness, obsession, corruption, violence, and
~ Marianne Williamson
She was an old woman, but she managed to look like a young woman with a ravaging disease.
~ Marilynne Robinson
You know, the Elizabethans thought nostalgia was a diagnosable disease. Perhaps they were right.
~ Mark Gatiss
O los seres humanos cogerán todos una enfermedad y se extinguirán o producirán demasiada contaminación y se matarán a ellos mismos, y entonces sólo habrá insectos en el mundo y ellos serán el mejor animal.
~ Mark Haddon
In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.
~ Mark Hyman
Every time you take a bite of food, consider that you are programming your biology for health or disease. When you eat healthy food, you are, in fact, eating medicine.
~ Mark Hyman
Good women discuss these things the way epidemiologists identify and track disease without alarming the public. This is woman's work. Men are unfitted for it by nature and should be protected from it the same way women shouldn't have to go down the mines. Men are so innocent.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
I believe celiac disease is a very serious ailment, and if you're diagnosed with it, I'm pleased that there are now gluten-free options, but these people who are treating gluten as, you know, an equivalent of Al Qaeda are worrying to me.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I went to Ithaca in 1903 when one person in ten was sick, and one person in a hundred was dying from the disease. You have no idea of the state of mind I found the people in. They didn't know what to do; didn't know where to go; didn't know whom to suspect and whom to trust  . .
~ Anthony Bourdain
Drug addiction is a progressive disease, so every time you go out, it gets a little uglier than it was before; it's not like you go back to the early days of using, when there was less of a price to pay. It isn't fun anymore, but it's still desperately exciting.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Ninguna enfermedad te enseña a morir. Te enseña a vivir. A amar la vida con toda la fuerza que tengas. A mí el SIDA no me quita, me da ganas de vivir
~ Antonio Santa Ana
Saber que tal remedio ha curado a Calias atacado de tal enfermedad, que ha producido el mismo efecto en Sócrates y en muchos otros tomados individualmente, constituye la experiencia; pero saber que tal remedio ha curado toda clase de enfermos atacados de cierta enfermedad, los flemáticos, por ejemplo, los biliosos o los calenturientos, es arte.
~ Aristotle
Michael's generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what he'd found in Michael: a gift for intimacy like none Ben had ever known.
~ Armistead Maupin
Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
he suffered from an incurable malady which, it seemed, attacked only homo sapiens among all the intelligent races of the universe. That disease was religious mania. Throughout
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Pelos padrões das eras passadas, era a Utopia. A ignorância, a doença, a pobreza e o medo haviam praticamente deixado de existir. A lembrança da guerra se desvanecia no passado, como um pesadelo que se dissolve com a alvorada. Em breve, ela estaria fora da experiência de qualquer pessoa viva.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
about twenty percent of the Lassans caught some kind of virus.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
faktem byÅ'o, i? cierpiaÅ' na nieuleczalnÄ… chorobÄ™, która jak siÄ™ wydawaÅ'o, spoÅ›ród wszystkich inteligentnych ras zamieszkujÄ…cych wszechÅ›wiat atakowaÅ'a tylko gatunki homo sapiens. TÄ… chorobÄ… byÅ'a mania religijna.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
sister died of the dropsy which had long afflicted her. That will be for a coroner to decide.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
She turned her car onto the last stretch of straight drive leading her directly, face to face, to Hill House and, moving without thought, pressed her foot on the brake to stall the car and sat, staring. The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.
~ Shirley Jackson
Send us the cure—the affliction we already have.
~ Sholom Aleichem
that there must be a cure for every disease. Health is natural, disease is unnatural.
~ Sidney Sheldon