Disease Quotes

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Consciousness is a disease.

The medicine increases the disease.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

The burden of disease falls on the poor.

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

I have a form of Parkinson's disease, which I don't like. My legs don't move when my brain tells them to. It's very frustrating.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

Life is an incurable disease.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Talking is the disease of age.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

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

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

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

We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

No man with a touch of heart disease should ever back his mounts.

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Despair often breeds disease.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Discrimination is a disease.

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

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.