“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.” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensFeelingsGirlPresidentWhiteDiseaseAidsSavedHorriblePriestsAffectedTeenageEpidemicsTeenage GirlPta Author:David Levithan
“To build public support for what they're doing, scientists are always going to say there is the prospect to cure all these horrible diseases, but they're cautious for the most part in saying when those cures will arrive.” SupportDiseaseScientistHorribleCuresCautious Author:Richard Ashcroft
“Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.” PeopleWorldNeedsShouldLongIdeasBeautifulSufferingOrderTermDiseaseBenefitsSpeciesPopulationCancerCirclesHorribleCompareLong TermOur SocietyDreadConsumptionViciousHorrible ThingsWorld PopulationVicious Circles Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau
“A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.” PeopleRealityDealsSeeingDiseaseHorribleDisabilityProjectionParkinsonParkinson's Author:Michael J. Fox
“Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.” PeopleDiseaseConsciousLifetimeBonesFleshBillionsHorribleVulnerableVulnerabilityFragileLoving SomeoneBreedingGermsBundles Author:Barbara Mertz
“I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.” PresidentChallengesCareersDiseaseCampaignsHorribleEnjoyedUnpredictableWormsAdventurousGuineaNew CarNew Career Author:Jimmy Carter
“Josef Stalin once said that 'Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.' Let us correct this: Ingratitude is a horrible disease belongs to the callous rocks! A grateful dog is a being much more developed than an ungrateful man!” MenSaidRocksDogGratitudeDiseaseGratefulHorribleSicknessUngratefulIngratitudeCallousJosef Stalin Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.” NeedsFeelsMindFactsFeelingsAliveFailingLonelinessFieldsPaintingGoes OnVictoryDiseaseGainsHorribleShyGoing OutOverwhelmedTime Goes On Book:Van Gogh, letters from Provence Source: Van Gogh, letters from Provence
“You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!” IfsFeelsWellsMeanI CanDiesCausesBandDiseaseHorribleCuresTestedParadesAlzheimerAlzheimer'sMarching Band Author:Arj Barker
“The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and with our aging population, it's a growing problem. It's terrible to lose your brain and your power to be conscious or in the moment.” MomentsProblemLosesBrainGrowingMomTerribleDiseaseConsciousAgingPassionatePopulationMy MomHorribleAssociationGrandfatherMy GrandfatherAlzheimerAlzheimer'sAging Population Author:Graham Shiels
“There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing to be hedonist or it's a chronic progressive disease. And while I certainly believe addiction is a medical problem that should be dealt with by the health system, the way we've conceptualized addiction as a disease is not actually accurate, and it has unfortunately become stigmatizing and it's also created a lot of hopelessness in a lot of people.” PeopleWayShouldBelievePersonsTwoDifferentProblemSinSeeingDiseaseAddictionMedicalHorribleDifferent WaysProgressiveAccurateHopelessnessHealth SystemHedonistMedical Problems Author:Maia Szalavitz
“If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.” PeopleIfsThinkingLittlesDifferentWould BeAgeYoungDiesStudentsDiseaseVery GoodHorribleTeethAwfulYoung AgeOld DaysGood Students Author:Elon Musk
“My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.” FirstsTwoWholeRememberProcessDifficultDiseaseDiedCancerPainfulBonesYesterdayHorribleGrandmotherPassed AwayBone Cancer Author:Gisele Bundchen
“In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.” ChildrenWatchesCasesBrotherMomDadBedDiseaseCancerHorribleInnocentHospitalsBrothers And SistersHospitalitySisterInnocent Children Author:Michael McCaul
“Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.” KindPersonsSpiritEvilRacePossibilitySourceDiseaseRacismDrawsHorribleEnlightenedFascinationImmuneInfectionAnti SemitismVapor Book:The humanist in the bathtub Source: The humanist in the bathtub