“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.” LifeFeelsHeartHardEnoughWould BeFacesCoursesFeltFateDyingGratitudePureMountainDiseaseBlessedAccidentsNobleExplorationContemptDozenCrystalsBeing BlessedGlaciersShabby Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.” HardDiseaseAidsWorld Aids DayAids Day Author:Bill Gates
“I guess most of us would rather not discuss cancer because we are all afraid we might be told we have it. It's hard for people to even say the word, and that's the first obstacle you have to overcome when you are diagnosed with the disease. I think once you understand a little more about it ... I don't mean it gets any easier ... but I think you give it more in-depth thought about how you're going to deal with it.” PeopleThinkingGivingFirstsMeanLittlesHardMightDealsEasierDiseaseOvercomingDepthCancerObstacles Author:Arnold Palmer
“I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?” WantFeelsHumansMeanHardSongDiseaseCommunicatePopsHard ThingsPop Song Author:Zola Jesus
“Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.” PeopleFirstsHardPhilosophyEvilDifficultSilenceTalkingProduceConversationDiseaseCuresRemedyInabilityTalkative Book:Plutarch's Complete Works Source: Plutarch's Complete Works
“If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.” IfsWayFeelsShouldTryingCountryHardStatesWholeBodyPoliticalDiseaseMinistersOfficialsDepartmentLimbsCurbAdministrators Author:Chanakya
“A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.” HardHateCasesDiseaseProfessionMedicalTeethCuresPhonyMedical ProfessionPlacebo Author:Charles Jencks
“It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.” HardPerspectiveDiseaseCriticsLaziness Author:Michael Haneke
“It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” KindHardEnoughKidsHealthyDiseaseNormalRaisesAddParentingBurdenParenthoodDisability Author:Patricia Heaton
“It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.” HumansHardUsedStudyDiseaseToolsPlantIncrediblesValuable Author:Bill Gates
“I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.” KnowsMenHardLosesDiseaseWeightHeavyPursueGod KnowsLose WeightThyroidPheromones Author:Erica Jong
“Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.” InspirationalPersonsHardSuccessfulHard WorkDiseaseMedicineSuccessful Person Author:Abdul Kalam
“There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.” MenWarEndsMatterHardCharacterBornTroubleHe ManDiseaseFolksHard TimesFamine Author:Louis L'Amour
“If you do an episode about something like transverse myelitis, it's a real disease that's out there, there are a lot of people that have it, and it's hard to get funding for them because people don't know about it. There are actually a lot of doctors that don't know about it. But if you do an episode of House, all of a sudden 15 million people are hearing the words, and it's an opportunity.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealHardOpportunityHouseMillionsDiseaseDoctorsHearingEpisodesFunding Author:Peter Jacobson
“Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.” ChildrenHardLife IsDiseaseStrategyTiredDelightDelightedLife Is Hard Author:John Darnielle
“There are so many symptoms of this disease it's hard to know where to start to catalogue them, but just look at the effects on hydrology - on the way water moves around the planet.” KnowsWayLooksHardMovingWaterEffectsPlanetsDiseaseSymptomsCatalogues Author:Bill McKibben
“This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.” PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensHardHandsLyingHateCausesVoiceHealingHeardTreeCenturyPromisePureDiseaseMouthsShould HaveTongueLive LifeDryKnivesShould Have BeenWhipsDiseasedExactnessPromise Of The FutureDry Leaves Author:Arundhati Roy
“Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.” MindSelfHardBodyPainSufferingProcessDiseaseIllnessAlzheimerAlzheimer's Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.” HardFacesWorkFailingDrugDiseaseConsequenceTestsOvercomingAbusePreparedSubstanceGoing AwaySubstance Abuse Author:Lindsay Lohan
“We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.” MenWorldShouldHardFallWishPovertyIgnoranceDiseaseRainHungerBurdenNuclearCatastrophe Author:Haile Selassie
“I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'” ThinkingSometimesHardDiseaseDiedWhy NotSiblingHard LifeWhy Me Author:Mattie Stepanek
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.” IfsThinkingMenWorldYearsArtStillsRealHardFiveStreetsCrimeCircumstancesDrugTenDiseaseMy FamilyTwentiesMovedChinaRevengeMartial ArtsDevotedDealerTwenty FiveMonasteriesDrug DealersBeing BadWiping Out Author:Neal Stephenson
“Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.” MenHardDiesHard WorkConflictDiseasePsychologicalBoredom Book:Blood, Brains and Beer Source: Blood, Brains and Beer
“If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.” IfsYearsLooksHardHard WorkDiseaseAutumnComplacency Author:Nick Cave
“Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.” IfsKindLongDoeHardWould BeEnergyHoursViewsPayToo MuchBloodHard WorkAmountDiseaseProfessionHospitalsNurseFeverNursingInadequateManiaIncurable Disease Author:Monica Dickens