Best Disease Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.”

Problem Loss Four Conditions Disease Ears Pressure Hearing Symptoms Fluid Retention Hearing Loss Vertigo

Author:Katie Leclerc

“Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.”

Form Certain Effects Disease Antioxidants

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.”

Disease Cures Operations

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.”

Thinking Kind Different Disease Different Kinds

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.”

Believe Age Actors Disease Great Actors

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.”

Thinking Stills Jobs Actors Disease

Author:Roddy McDowall

“Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.”

Important Reason Age Seeing Disease Population Cancer Related Ageing

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.”

Thinking Kind Term Wonderful Cold Disease Normal Incredibles Cancer Cells Wonderful Things Reminders Duality

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.”

People Left Animal Fields Disease Weapons Mass Destruction Originals Vulnerable Starvation Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:James Nachtwey

“What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?”

Mean Persons Different Action Process Brain Crazy Goes On Disease Responsible Mad Slave Chemicals

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.”

Doe Whole Jobs Talking Information Disease Available Better Off Best Job

Author:Dave Obey

“There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.”

Disease Elements Trade Jew Various Tendencies Finance Silver Metals Monopoly Nickels

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.”

“Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!”

Knows Wells Heart Persons Running Numbers Greater Risk Amount Disease Fats Diabetes Heart Disease

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.”

Science Progress Health Disease Resources Medicine Cancer Medical Cures Treatment Proven Prevention Medical Science Great Progress

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Most disease is psychic occult attack.”

Disease Psychics Occult

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You have to be very, very careful not to pick up too much of the lower energies, the toxic energies, because they'll make you very ill. They can kill you. They can cause cancer, debilitative diseases of all types.”

Energy Causes Too Much Type Disease Picks Ill Cancer Careful Toxic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.”

Sometimes Waiting Worst Produce Disease Stones Patient Painful Passing Passings Speculation Calculus Kidneys Gout Kidney Disease

Author:Thomas Sydenham

“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

Should Writing Mind Lying Disease Philosophical Hypothesis

Book:The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

Source: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.

“My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.”

Goal Technology Blood Drug Disease Treats Patient Decades Trials Cells Diabetes Clinicals Parkinson Parkinson's Clinical Trials

Author:Shinya Yamanaka

“Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes.”

Disease Majors Diabetes Complication Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Disease

Author:Antonio Gotto

“Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.”

Giving Children Disease Adults Pertussis

Author:Paul A. Offit

“Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.”

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.”

Knows Years Sin Millions Disease Tired Dollars Spread Hearing Spending Alcohol Sickness Alcoholism I'm Tired Alcohol Abuse Alcoholism Funny

Author:Vance Havner

“Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.”

“Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.”

Helping Numbers Cases Particular Huge Tomorrow Disease Scientist Majority Patient Cures Treatment Links Dna Huge Numbers

Author:Charles C. Mann

“Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.”

Mother Known Heard Disease Diagnosis Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Kevin Whately

“I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.”

Thinking Years Children Sometimes Seems Type Disease Adults Kidneys Kidney Disease

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.”

Reality Desire Disease Combination Goddess Revealing Venus Protestantism Categorization Moralizing

Book:The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

“It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.”

Two Knowing Disease Discworld Alzheimer Alzheimer's Disease And Death

Author:Terry Pratchett

“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.”

Ifs Knows Years Has Beens Feelings Girl President White Disease Aids Saved Horrible Priests Affected Teenage Epidemics Teenage Girl Pta

Author:David Levithan

“Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?”

Body Imagination Brain Disease Sick Your Body Organs

Author:Ruby Wax

“That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer of faith — particularly one within the Church, and more particularly one who is employed specifically to build faith — places himself in great spiritual jeopardy. He is serving the wrong master, and unless he repents, he will not be among the faithful in the eternities. Do not spread disease germs!”

Past Spiritual Church Leader Masters Disease Weakness Eternity Delight Spread Faithful Serving Historian Scholar Employed Repent Pointing Germs Frailty Destroyers Jeopardy Great Spiritual

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.”

Persons States Humanity United Responsibility Poverty United States Conflict Disease Cures Lifts

Author:Richard Lugar

“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.”

People Character Dream Alive Disease Negative Add Tongue Reputation Aspiration Allowing Unhealthy Negative People Debris Discreet

Author:Michael Bassey

“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.”

Writing My Own Grief Disease Majors Losing Decided Affected Refuge Mobility

Author:Tara Brach

“What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.”

Needs School Language Process Loses Teach Information Huge Disease Empathy Sight Patient Medical Preserves Cynicism Volume Replaced Medical School

Author:Abraham Verghese

“Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals and humans. It is also quite well-established that amoebas are important contaminants of tissue cultures used in preparation of live biologicals, vaccines being the most important of them because they are widely injected into small babies and children.”

Humans Wells Children Has Beens Important Used Culture Animal Serious Baby Disease Spread Preparation Vaccines Tissues Humans And Animals

Author:Viera Scheibner

“People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.”

People Heart Might Jobs Loses Risk Information Position Disease Findings Cancer Illness Breasts Breast Cancer Heart Disease

Author:Francis Collins

“Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.”

May Has Beens Religion Disease Originals Cures

Book:The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity

Source: The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity

“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.”

“The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.”

Should Political Social White Proud Disease Daily Life White Supremacy Attempting Political Correctness Correctness Supremacy Imposition Contrition

Author:Robert Agostinelli

“From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.”

Should Whole Study Progress Effects Students Ought Periods Disease Observation Witness Sickness Persevere Commencement

Author:Robert James Graves

“If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.”

People Ifs World Heart Modern Disease Standards Western Diets Modern World Heart Disease

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.”

Important Modern Building Disease Plant Vulnerable Diets Viruses Compounds Infection Immunity

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.”

World Hands Beautiful Disease Glad

Author:R. Kelly

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.”

Mean Fun Disease Hiv Health System

Author:Philip E. Berger

“Of course, there are diseases of which people die.”

People Dies Courses Disease

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.”

Disease Negative Aids Defining Hiv

Author:Serge Lang

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