Syndrome Quotes

Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations. (Andrew Weil)
Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. View quote
Patty Hearst
Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality. View quote
Spider Robinson
I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. View quote
Margaret Cho
Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap. View quote
Marc Maron
The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease. View quote
Linus Torvalds
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. View quote
Wole Soyinka
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. (Sarah Palin)
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's. View quote
Rod Serling
Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens. View quote
Andrew Solomon
Caleb could be so testy for no known reason. At times, it was like dating a woman with irritable bowel syndrome. Or rabies. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend. View quote
J.R. Ward
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments. View quote
Sebastiao Salgado
I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool. View quote
Bill Kurtis
The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy. View quote
Billy Barty
I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot. View quote
Chris Burke
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. (Donald Glover)
I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot. View quote
Dash Mihok
I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations. View quote
Gary Numan
It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size. View quote
Kevin Nash
I get mail from people all over the world now from people who tell me that they didn't really understand Down syndrome, but because of me they have read about it and studied it and now they know a lot more about it. View quote
Lauren Potter