Arteriosclerosis Quotes

#1. Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

Paul Dudley White

#2. An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#3. Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.

Kilmer S. McCully

#4. A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

Aldous Huxley

#5. There is no chronic disease to be found
among fish and animal life in the sea that
compares to those on land.
It is also known that all land animals
develop arteriosclerosis, yet sea animals
have never been diagnosed as
arteriosclerotic.

Maynard Murray

#6. The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see ... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

Henry Miller

#7. Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Jim Cooper

#8. Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

Mary Douglas

#9. You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.

Don Winslow

#10. Breathe, Newberry. If you faint in the Blacksmith's laboratory, only the stars above know what might be grafted to your body when you wake up.

Meljean Brook

#11. The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

J.G. Ballard

#13. He was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that.

Ayn Rand