Disease Can Quotes

#1. As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

David Perlmutter

#2. Often it is better to hide an illness from the patient, because just the mere awareness of a disease can bring about death.

Seneca.

#3. Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

Cheryl Hines

#4. Death and his zealous minions - dread, despair, disease - can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.

Claire Messud

#5. When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

Atul Gawande

#6. Bitterness can compromise a heart the way fireblight disease can consume an apple orchard.

Nicole Deese

#7. Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency

Linus Pauling

#8. Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil ... Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your body for at least twenty-four hours. Even then, two weeks worth of commonly prescribed antibiotics will kill the bacterium.

Michael Specter

#11. I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.

Victoria Woodhull

#12. Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Michael J. Fox

#13. If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me,

Christopher Hitchens

#15. My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Manmohan Singh

#16. Someone who has a poverty consciousness, which is a mental disease, can change their habitual way of thinking if they are determined to do so and will take action.

Christopher Dines

#17. A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.

Louise L. Hay

#18. Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.

Bernie S. Siegel

#19. I believe that we not only feed the public demand for useless and harmful drugs, but also go far to create that very demand. We educate our patients and their friends to believe that every or almost every symptom and disease can be benefited by a drug.

Richard Clarke Cabot

#20. Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

Tom O'Connor

#21. You can get tested now for early onset Alzheimer's. Hold on a second, could someone hire a marching band, cause I'm so happy I feel like having a parade. You mean I can find out early if I'm going to die of a super horrible disease that there's no cure for? Well, whoopee!

Arj Barker

#22. I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

Harvey Fierstein

#23. A plague rides on the air here. The smell of rot! This is Doal's realm. Can't you feel it? The keep is doomed, don't you see? No, I will not pass through this gate. There is a disease in there I will not touch.

Kaoru Kurimoto

#24. True healing is not physical - it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.

Judith Cornell

#25. Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

Martin Rees

#26. Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.

David Agus

#27. You can extend your life tremendously by eating the right things. By eating right you can combat almost everything: disease, fatigue, over-work.

Fred Richmond

#28. Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

George Carman

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

Stephen Hawking

#30. I have found there to be little distance between the unlatching of a chain and the spreading of a woman's legs. As if they can never unbar only a single entrance. It's a disease called hope. Women suffer from it greatly.

Karen Marie Moning

#31. Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

Jeanne Phillips

#32. AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.

James Shikwati

#33. It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

Patricia Heaton

#34. When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in
operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or
whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring
down every stronghold of the enemy.

Smith Wigglesworth

#35. The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#36. Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

Mitch Hedberg

#37. The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Bill Gates

#38. Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.

Stephen Levine

#39. I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

Jim Doyle

#40. Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is something you can catch.

Frederick Lenz

#41. Life can become a celebration if you know how to live without concern. Otherwise life becomes a long prolonged disease, an illness which culminates only in death.

Osho

#42. I have a disease called can't keep your fucking mouth shut.

Tarryn Fisher

#43. 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.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#44. 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.

Peggy Lee

#45. Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Mark Hyman

#46. Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

Mary Ann Mobley

#47. All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.

Russell Brand

#48. The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

Monica Potter

#49. We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

Biz Stone

#50. We do food every single day! Conscious Eating is a big step toward Conscious Living. Quality and Quantity of Food is directly related to our Health and state of mind. We can use food to help us recover from Stress and Disease. Not taking food seriously will eventually lead to Stress or/and Disease.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#51. It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. It's as natural and desirable as -- syphilis...

H.G.Wells

#52. Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.

Sarah Wayne Callies

#53. Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Brian Tracy

#54. There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Isaac Asimov

#55. Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.

Frank Herbert

#56. British scientists say they have developed a super broccoli that can help fight heart disease. You know, if you want to fight heart disease, why don't you come up with a food people will actually eat? Like a super glazed doughnut.

Jay Leno

#57. I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

Mark Gatiss

#58. I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Tom Robbins

#59. Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

G.K. Chesterton

#60. Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.

Susan Sontag

#61. We can arrange better expectations and better circumstances beginning with the fact that we need not be who we are now; we can be better.

Charles C. Harpe

#62. I think there should be very strict limits on the pathogens that can be sold in your meat. There should be limits on disease-causing pathogens. Tests should determine whether the meat is contaminated or not, and you shouldn't be allowed to sell contaminated meat.

Eric Schlosser

#63. Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

Cynthia Kenyon

#64. There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

William Butler Yeats

#65. After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Chuck Palahniuk

#66. Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you - it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.

Deborah King

#67. Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?

Vitas Gerulaitis

#68. But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

Jim Valvano

#69. We can cure the disease of intolerance. We must do it if the world is to survive. No us. No them. Just we.

Steve Goodier

#70. We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

William James

#71. The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.

Theodore Gordon

#72. Mental illness is a physical illness, not some disease that enters the minds of the weak or characterless. Like cancer can happen to anyone, let's start treating mental illnesses as what they are, devastating diseases. ~ Sherry Hunter

Sherry Hunter

#73. You can't keep one disease and heal two others. When the body heals, it heals everything.

Charlotte Gerson

#74. If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation. We have to heal that entire community. And we have to focus on what actually works

Barack Obama

#75. There's nothing more powerful than someone who has the disease who can be articulate and go in front of Congress or go to local government and say man, this is what's happening, and it's going to be you.

David Hyde Pierce

#76. Its like a button in my brain is broken, like i've developed a disease that forces me to apologize for everything, for existing, for wanting more than what i've been given, and i can't stop.

Tahereh Mafi

#77. Insufficient oxygen means insufficient biological energy that can result in anything from mild fatigue to life threatening disease. The link between insufficient oxygen and disease has now been firmly established." -Dr. W. Spencer Way, Journal of the American Association of Physicians.

Ronald L. Knaus DO

#78. Ethan, you can choose to hope or you can choose to fear. Fear is a crippling disease. It takes over and paralyzes. Hope bolsters, motivates. People who fear, die. People who hope, live. Even in death they live.

Fisher Amelie

#79. In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

Frances Beinecke

#80. Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.

Lao-Tzu

#81. Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it, which I can guide my patients to use as a redirection in their lives. When doctors look at their patients, however, they are trained to see only the disease.

Bernie Siegel

#82. Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

Lawrence LeShan

#83. Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony.

F. David Peat

#84. Maybe ... a person can experience an illness as a kind of health. Maybe not every disease is a deficit, a taking away. Maybe what's happening to her is an opening, a window, a migration.

Anthony Doerr

#85. Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

Max Brooks

#86. There is one fat that diabetics can eat without fear. That fat is coconut oil. Not only does it not contribute to diabetes but it helps regulate blood sugar, thus lessening the effects of the disease

Bruce Fife

#87. You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer."
"Did he show you slides?"
We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.

Philip K. Dick

#88. When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

Sarah Hyland

#89. If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

S. Jay Olshansky

#90. Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

Mallory Ortberg

#91. My cousin was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and it's just a really tragic disease, and as of yet there is no cure, so I feel I want to get it as much publicity to do it as I can.

Nick Robinson

#92. Numbers can be an important aspect of understanding infectious disease. Take measles. At first glance, it might seem nonmathematical. It's caused by a paramyxovirus

David Quammen

#93. A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Laurel Lea

#94. You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.

Tom Sizemore

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

Kilmer S. McCully

#96. I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

Elizabeth Taylor

#97. Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.

Lily Montagu

#98. We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

Joel Salatin

#99. Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#100. They were very short, the golden years. The golden years are when you can sit back, hopefully, and exchange memories. And that's the worst part about this disease. There's nobody to exchange memories with.

Nancy Reagan