Disease Quotes - page 5

Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex. (Mikhail Gorbachev)
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability. View quote
William Rehnquist
Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease. View quote
Robert Sapolsky
The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels. View quote
David Icke
Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease. View quote
Peter Høeg
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.Please, just tell people to use KDE. View quote
Linus Torvalds
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. View quote
Linus Torvalds
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Reports to the Surgeon General... represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate-are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times. (Herbert Hoover)
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. View quote
William Osler
Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. View quote
Thomas Mann
But by and by, the cause of my disease Gives me a pang, that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. View quote
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Cure the disease and kill the patient. View quote
Francis Bacon
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill. View quote
John Calvin
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. Even so, God cannot save them from fools. View quote
John Muir
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives. View quote
John Muir
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. View quote
Virginia Woolf
For a desperate disease a desperate cure. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body. (Democritus)
The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information. View quote
Vanna Bonta
A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible. View quote
Simon Soloveychik
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. View quote
Terry Pratchett