Aids Quotes - Page 21

• Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.

  Jeff Stilson

  Couple, Men, Elderly

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• The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

  John H. Sununu

  Education, Excellence, Incentives

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• The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Poetry, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing aids which may not also injure us.
  Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn
  His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

  Ovid

  Fire, Hands, Plot

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• I am willing to pledge myself that if the time should ever come that the voluntary agencies of the country together with the localand state governments are unable to find resources with which to prevent hunger and sufferingI will ask the aid of every resource of the Federal Government.... I have the faith in the American people that such a day will not come.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Agency, Government

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Dirty, Responsibility

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• Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Self, Parent

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• What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Military, War

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Men, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil
  Can daunt a pure affection.

  Silius Italicus

  Love, Women, Doubt

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• A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

  Sharon Stone

  Queens, Kids, Thinking

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• Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

  Kay Granger

  Poverty, Investment, Expenses

  "The Future of Funding: Development Aid as an Investment" by Dan Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Our aid is work for the American people.

  Rajiv Shah

  People, Poverty

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• I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

  Michael Specter

  Writing, Epidemics, Medicine

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• In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

  Barton Gellman

  Uganda, Notable, Problem

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• New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.

  Alexander Theroux

  Moving, Mean, Eggs

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• The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

  Michel Martelly

  Moving, Hands Up, Waiting

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• History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

  Nelson Mandela

  Fighting, Judging, Bears

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

  Mary Fisher

  Children, Health, Grace

  1992 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 19 August 1992, Houston, TX

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• I ask you ... to recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old.

  Mary Fisher

  Health, Gay, White

  1992 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 19 August 1992, Houston, TX

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• There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Art, Science, Law

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• AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Responsibility, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.

  Michael Stipe

  Thinking, Feelings, Apocalyptic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"

  Michael Stipe

  Baby, Sex, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Crazy, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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