Quotes About Antibiotic Resistance

#1. Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#2. Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

William A. Dembski

#3. The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century.

Ralph Nader

#4. As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is inevitable.

Martin J. Blaser

#5. Rather than say that the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, we would be more correct to say that it lost its sensitivity to it. It lost information ... Information cannot be built up by mutations that lose it. A business can't make money by losing it a little at a time.

Lee Spetner

#6. We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

Jay Rockefeller

#7. I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

Rosemarie DeWitt

#8. It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

Ivan Doig

#9. We clung to each other with a kind of desperate longing...I never understood exactly what it was, not until I became a hexagenarian. It was that hope of hope that flows between kindred spirits and had little to do with being related by blood.

Keewaydinoquay Peschel

#10. He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been working longer than anybody else in the Ystad CID. Once upon a time he'd been the newcomer.

Henning Mankell

#11. If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would.

Baltasar Gracian

#12. No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.

Richard Louv

#13. Even the highest tree has an axe waiting at its foot.

Ian Fleming

#14. Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

John Tillotson

#15. Then consider the Middle (and later the New) Comedy and what it aimed at - gradually degenerating into mere realism and empty technique.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

Erin O'Connor

#17. I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.

Kanye West

#18. But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then ... and then it was just me.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#19. I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet.

Nicolle Wallace

#20. It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to ... immigrate, you could say.

Catherynne M Valente