Rare Disease Sayings

#1. Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#2. (Researchers at the University of Iowa have for years been studying a woman, known in the literature as S.M., whose amygdala was destroyed by a rare disease - and who cannot, as a consequence, experience fear.)

Scott Stossel

#3. Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.

Martin Shkreli

#5. If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

Hamilton Jordan

#6. Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.

Sanya Richards-Ross

#8. Oliver North says he is very upset that John Walker could come back to this country and cash in on his celebrity status. He hates to see someone who did something wrong get rewarded by writing a book or getting a TV show out of it.

Jay Leno

#9. I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Vernon L. Smith

#10. Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease, a rare and debilitating neurological disorder.

Anonymous

#11. If I've learned anything, it's that we know next to nothing. Disease is a mystery. Health is inscrutable. The body itself is scarcely understood; we can only examine the secrets of the dead. And in all that dark ignorance, we're sometimes granted a rare moment of illumination. The truth is a gift.

Courtney Milan

#12. If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Will Harvey

#13. This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.

Josette Sheeran

#14. What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body. In

Corrie Ten Boom

#15. They were having sex on Gifford's desk, if you must know."
Lucas's eyes glinted. "His desk, huh?"
"Yes." Amaryllis raised her chin, the better to look down her nose at him. "I would have thought it would have been extremely uncomfo rtable, but they appeared to enjoy it.

Jayne Castle

#16. Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases.

Robert A. Burton

#17. On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that's what music's for.

Madonna Ciccone

#18. Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

Peter Latham

#19. Live a little, Connor, life is too short.

Sandi Lynn

#20. My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

Mattie Stepanek

#21. I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.

John Thaw

#22. A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.

Herman Boerhaave

#23. Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.

Idries Shah

#24. Samaritrophia is only a disease, and a violent one, too, when it attacks those exceedingly rare individuals who reach biological maturity still loving and wanting to help their fellow men.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Was he confused? Drunk? Took too many balls to the face? And dear sweet Mary mother of baby Jesus, that was a fine-looking face.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#26. It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#27. Hansen's disease" - that's the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy - "Hansen's disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy

Lou Dobbs

#28. The first time you saw someone naked was not the time to inject humor or rile them up.

Christin Lovell

#29. His looks were the result of a genetic crapshoot.

Suzanne Brockmann

#30. Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.

Ben Huh

#31. Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God understands both.

Craig D. Lounsbrough