Best 1324 quotes in «disease quotes» category

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

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

Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

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.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

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?

Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

Savant syndrome is not a disorder in the same way as autism is a disorder or dementia is a disorder. Savant syndrome are some conditions that are superimposed and grafted on to some underlying disability. So savant syndrome is not a disease or disorder in and of itself. It is a collection of characteristics, or symptoms, or behaviors that have grafted on to the underlying disability.

Satire is the disease of art.

Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.