Being Sick Quotes - Page 2

• I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."

  Chuck Klosterman

  Real, Hate, Epidemics

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Education Secretary Arne Duncan spurned the opportunity to condemn thousands of Wisconsin public school teachers for lying about being 'sick' and shutting down at least eight school districts across the state to attend capitol protests (many of whom dragged their students on a social justice field trip with them). Instead, Duncan defended teachers for 'doing probably the most important work in society.' Only striking government teachers could win federal praise for not doing their jobs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Teacher, Jobs, Lying

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• It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Strong, Jobs

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• Having an eating disorder doesn't show ‘strength.’ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a ‘diet’ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.

  Demi Lovato

  Tired, Men, Sick

  Demi Lovato @ddlovato, twitter.com. November 12, 2014.

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• You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

  Graydon Carter

  Mother, School, Light

  "Get Carter". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2002.

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• It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick.

  Michael Moore

  Sick, Crime, Should

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• They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Sick, Attention

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sea, Sick, Foundation

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Pay, Donation

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• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Health, Doctors

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

  Alex Kapranos

  Blessing, Sick, Boredom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Nature, World, Earth

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1984). “A History of Haiku: From the beginnings up to Issa”

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• To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

  Laozi

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Sick

  Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”

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• Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Play, Sick

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• It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Andy Gilbert

  Attitude, Tired, Sick

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• There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sick, Dying, World

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• Harriet Tubman didn't have strategy meetings or a movement behind her, she was the movement, she was inspired by being sick and tired of the injustice she was experiencing and she knew she had a right to liberty or death, one or the other she was going to have by any means necessary.

  Aisha Hinds

  Tired, Mean, Sick

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• One of the reasons I went back to music even though I was extremely ill was because I started to forget who I was aside from being sick. And when I'm performing, or even lecturing, it's like I'm myself again, and that was a really amazing discovery - that, all of a sudden, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sick, Forget, Reason

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.

  David Ramsey

  Inspirational, Motivation, Stress

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• For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

  Sylvia Porter

  Dream, Retirement, Mean

  Sylvia Field Porter (1976). “Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It, and Use it to Better Your Life”

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