Disease Quotes

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before.

[A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me; it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

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.

Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Most disease is psychic occult attack.

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.