Quotes of: Heart-disease Keyword

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

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

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

The Pale King

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

Seth Berkley

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

Henry Miller

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

Margaret Chan

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

Nathan Wolfe

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Octavia E. Butler

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Lewis Allen

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.

Paul Coffey

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

Paul Gascoigne

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Phoebe Snow

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

Rowan Atkinson

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

Robert T. Bakker

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

Rose George

The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease.

Richard Holbrooke

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

Stifyn Emrys

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Sophocles

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Susan Sontag

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Simone Weil

IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients' somatic cells.

Shinya Yamanaka