Disease Quotes

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Death is better than disease.

As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

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.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

Why couldn't I have a fatal disease? It'd be so much easier.

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously.

I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

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

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

Devotion is a disease. And you catch it from those people who have it.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.

Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.