Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Mayo

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Patty Stonesifer

The polio-eradication initiative has shown the world that even in the poorest countries, widespread and debilitating disease can be defeated.

Tom Clancy

When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Now is a time where there are so many social networks, such need for validation... you don't have to be a star or a politician to want to have likes or dislikes. Now there is a disease of popularity in the whole society.

Jane Lawrence

When I go to these drives, see people who don't even know her and don't know what this disease is even about helping out it's great.

Laura Hillenbrand

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

Andrea Barrett

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Pamela Anderson

Tommy has the disease and never disclosed it to me during our marriage,

Paul Epstein

We are looking at an emergence of new diseases and a resurgence of old diseases, and redistribution of old diseases on a global scale.

Tim Jones

The only reason they got three points was because of penalties, and we have to eliminate those.

Bobby Rush

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

Nathan Myhrvold

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

Norv Turner

What we have to do is eliminate the self-inflicted wounds. The ones where the play is there ... to get 5 yards, to get 7 yards. That's where we're not getting it done right now.

Carl Hayes

We had a plan going into the game. We were going to try to eliminate Nelson from scoring. We stepped up and got it done.

Frank Robinson

Where do you go back, stop and say, 'OK, when did he start using steroids?' To eliminate all that, and get the players' attention, you wipe the whole thing out.

John Gibbons

We're not eliminated yet. I'm proud of the way the guys have played this year, they get after it. We're only going to get better.

Allen Iverson

We're not eliminated till we're eliminated. I just feel good about not being eliminated. We get to live another day.

Giovanni Bisignani

Unfortunately, there is no mechanism to eliminate existing capacity.

Norman Douglas

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Tony Campolo

In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood.

Alice Oswald

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

Darin Strauss

When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Samantha Fox

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Laurie Simmons

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

Pontus Hulten

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

Joe Eberhardt

We have more inventory than we'd ideally like.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Anne Brown

We are not seeking a totally safe world, but we are doing what we can to prevent those really serious injuries.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Nina Simmons

You can put some procedures in place to try to prevent it - but if you're one of those schools that has that tradition, it's going to happen.

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

Mr Bush

Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures.

Steven Wood

Manufacturing is mired in a deep, prolonged recession.