Contracted A Disease Quotes

#1. I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Max Ehrmann

#2. The ability to bounce back after a setback is the single most important trait an entrepreneurial venture can possess.

Richard Branson

#3. God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

Dawson Trotman

#4. The word liberal has been employed as the political equivalent of an untreatable but potentially containable social disease
the kind that could be contracted merely by going to a foreign movie or ordering a decaf latte, or worse, a glass of French wine.

Eric Alterman

#5. As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Writing is a lifelong disease.

Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

J.R. Tompkins

#7. I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

Daryl Hall

#8. Ella was a perfect study in contradictions, and I'd somehow contracted her like a beautiful disease.

Laura Marie Altom

#9. The glory of Christ in the gospel is the decisive ground of saving faith because saving faith is the receiving of Christ as infinitely glorious and supremely valuable.

John Piper

#10. Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane)
It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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

Jane Yolen

#13. Nor was I following how someone who seemed so sweet and genteel at Bible study was acting like someone who'd contracted mad cow disease. Or maybe politics made people act slightly demon-possessed.

Christy Barritt

#14. Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.

Olof Arnalds

#15. I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.

Amy Robach