Microbe Quotes

#1. The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

Anthony Fauci

#2. I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally at home, totally nourished; but in a situation in which it was infinitely significant.

John Fowles

#3. A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.

Rod Serling

#4. If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?

Margaret Atwood

#6. For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.

Marcel Proust

#7. Contact means the exchange of specific knowledge, ideas, or at least of findings, definite facts. But what if no exchange is possible? If an elephant is not a giant microbe, the ocean is not a giant brain.

James E. Lovelock

#8. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest - health, integrity, purity (if you like) - is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

Albert Camus

#9. To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves

Frida Kahlo

#10. Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

#11. Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.

Elie Metchnikoff

#12. As soon as we pass through the birth canal we begin to become 90 percent microbe.

Raphael Kellman

#13. It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.

James Walsh

#14. All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

Antonio Porchia

#15. As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

Charles V. Chapin

#16. The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Hilaire Belloc

#17. A microbe is more deadly than a minotaur

Marty Rubin

#18. Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.

Paul De Kruif

#19. Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

Nathan Wolfe

#20. then came a virus like an avenging angel, unsurvivable, a microbe that reduced the population of the fallen world by, what? There were no more statisticians by then, my angels, but shall we say ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent?

Emily St. John Mandel

#21. He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself ... For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

Anais Nin

#22. The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.

Craig Venter

#23. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. You are the sum of what you believe. Your capabilities are limitless when you allow yourself to be so.

Steven Cuoco

#25. Cast fear forever from your heart. God's love protects the sparrow: surely He is near His children who rely on His faithfulness!

Frances J Roberts

#26. It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia

#27. I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

Michael Jordan

#28. I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#29. Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,

Jay Paterno

#30. Maybe I am losing it. They say a big sign of mental illness is not knowing you have it. But isn't it real insanity to go through the world ignoring people in front of you? All your friends were strangers before they became friends. I sneak glances at the darling strangers on the subway.

Dakota Lane

#31. Because I cared more about knowing you than I did about winning another game.

Tarryn Fisher

#32. All this security and prospects are different for different people. Somebody is happy playing music and with a less pay, somebody is secure in the corporate world with a high pay with headache. We have individual tastes, tastes are not universal.

Ravindra Shukla

#33. No one can quit smoking for you, or make you want to change your life. No one can make you do anything that you don't want to do.

Gudjon Bergmann

#34. If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

Ransom Riggs

#35. I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Daniel Pennac

#36. What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?

Sam Harris

#37. All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

Adam Jones