Health Quotes - page 91

Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers. (Margaret Chan)
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor. View quote
Margaret Chan
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play. View quote
Margaret Chan
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency. View quote
Margaret Chan
New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out. View quote
Margaret Chan
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. View quote
Donella Meadows
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. View quote
Virginia Henderson
I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
What force, precisely, is operating when a prisoner is advised, requested, ordered, intimidated, or forced, to confess to a crime he has not committed, and promised a lighter sentence for so perjuring and debasing himself? Does the law exist for the purpose of furthering the ambitions of those who have sworn to uphold the law, or is it seriously to be considered as a moral, unifying force, the health and strength of a nation? (James Baldwin)
As control engineers and scientists, we have greatly altered the way people and nations live and interact with one another. We have helped to create a world in which people live longer, enjoy better health, are better educated, and can travel and communicate over greater distances. But the systems that provide these better lives are fragile systems subject to unpredictable failures and possible destruction. We have also helped to create a world in which international relations are such that the very civilizations we have helped to build over centuries can be destroyed in a matter of hours. View quote
Harold Chestnut
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains. View quote
Thomas Frank
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party. View quote
Thomas Frank
The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them. View quote
Thomas Frank
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself. View quote
Thomas Frank
When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there. View quote
Darrell Hammond
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices. (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. View quote
Arthur Murphy
There is within each of us a "life-instinct," which is forever working toward health, happiness, and all that makes for more life for the individual. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. View quote
Sue Monk Kidd
A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health. View quote
Ellen G. White