As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
#quotes #robert-jarvik #medicine

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
#quotes #robert-dessaix #writing #books

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
#quotes #william-j-h-boetcker #character #courage #independence #freedom

You have to be a model and multifaceted, but there's not a lot of ways for a model to be multifaceted because the actresses took all the covers. ~Kim Alexis
#quotes, #kim-alexis #entertainment #acting

There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
#quotes #john-coltrane #feelings

Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
#proverbs #silence

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
#quotes #thomas-friedman #caring #community

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
#quotes #sharon-stone #failure #health #marriage

The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
#quotes #robert-kiyosaki #success #failure

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain
#quotes #mark-twain #health #medicine #books

Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home. ~Dennis Kucinich
#quotes #dennis-kucinich #poverty #health #education #destruction

Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
#quotes #jane-jacobs #society #innovation #economy

I'm a little concerned I'm always going to be playing a black guy, you know what I'm saying? ~Dule Hill
#quotes #dule-hill #acting #black

Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani Proverb
#proverbs #azerbaijani-proverbs

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid. ~Viggo Mortensen
#quotes #viggo-mortensen #interesting

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #health

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
#quotes #bernadette-devlin #politics #sacrifice

The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverb #health #disease

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
#proverbs #spanish-proverbs #health

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
#quotes #anne-lamott #suffering #books

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #medicine

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
#quotes #louis-dudek #health #achievement

Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
#quotes #p-j-o-rourke #health #insurance #medicine

Are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love? ~Cecelia Ahern
#quotes #cecelia-ahern #love