Quotes of: Disease Keyword

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Michael Huffington

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

Sure I’m alone but I don’t feel lonely. Some people regard loneliness as a disease and to be honest, this is the first time in years I have been totally alone. No girl around to put my hand under her chin in the dead of night or feel her warm bre...

Leaving London

The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, an...

Plato: Letters to my Son

Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.

Do You Come Here Often?

Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not something that stalks only the dregs of society. Drug addiction is REALIZED EMOTIONAL DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

Flaws of Oblivion

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Hogfather

Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.

Hemlock Grove

...Because I have a a serious medical condition. Gabe shook his head ruefully. It's called foot-in-mouth disease.

Betting the Billionaire

What society judged was not the severity of the disease but the social acceptability of the individuals affected with it…

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Beating Cancer with Natural Medicine

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

Martin Rees

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

Nina Hagen

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Jacob's Room

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do.

Sabine

Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease

I was once told that sometimes out of limitation comes our greatest strength.

Second chances: true stories of living with Addison's disease

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure.

My Life and Loves

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

Mystical Paths

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood