Disease Quotes

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
Liza Minnelli

Help, Mean, Learned

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.
Liza Minnelli

Help, Mean, Learned

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.
Jamie Oliver

Today, Heart, Country

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Leon Kass

Suffering, Everybody, Almost

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry

Great, Loneliness, Become

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
David Mitchell

Work, Why, Young

Without money honor is merely a disease.
Jean Racine

Money, Honor, Merely

This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
Jello Biafra

Home, Long, America

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
Mercedes McCambridge

Alcoholism, Zillions

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
Sargent Shriver

Racism, Understand, Treat

But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
Dan Lipinski

Great, Live, Blood

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.
Ellen Barkin

Crazy, Gay, Friend

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
Constance Baker Motley

School, Writing, Through

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
Jo Nesbo

Crazy, Person, Mean

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner

Pollution, Incurable, Prevented

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
Piers Anthony

Education, Sex, Before

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge

Gambling, Civilized, Barbarians

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
Antony Beevor

School, Child, Stuff

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
Alice Miller

Long, Person, Child

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
Imogen Cunningham

Keep, Alive, Silly

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.
Georgina Chapman

Mother, Walk, Room

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.
Jared Diamond

Few, Animal, Humans

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.
Alan Moore

Christian, Satan, Degree

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
Wendell Berry

God, Truth, Alone

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.
Kristin Davis

Family, Everybody, Run

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
Alonzo Mourning

Basketball, Playing, Won

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
Candace Bushnell

Life, Age, Health

With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.
Teri Garr

Easy, Worst, Throw

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
Teri Garr

Different, Find, Medicine

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
Paul Farmer

Time, Different, Same

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