Disease Quotes

"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

The attitude of the Catholic Church towards homosexuality is well known - it is treated as something unnatural, even as a disease.

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.

We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.

I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages.

We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease, and I don’t think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they’re openly telling you that they do.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.