Flu Quotes - Page 5

• If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Weather, People, Would Be

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• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  Nate Mendel

  Pregnancy, Viruses, Hiv

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2000.

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• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Skating On Thin Ice, World, Terrorism

  "Modern lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Cancer, Ulcers, Mental Illness

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• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Iraq, People

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

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• Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

  Petra Stunt

  Taken, Worry, Healthy

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• When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

  Rich Lowry

  Mom, Dad, Nice

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• We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

  James Patterson

  Lows, Swine, Fangs

  James Patterson (2007). “Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  Sara Gruen

  Real, War, What If

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• Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.

  Shel Silverstein

  Home, Today, Way

  Shel Silverstein, “Love”

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• There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

  Laini Taylor

  Boys, Bird, Looks

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Desire, Skins, Apathy

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• He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

  Anne Lamott

  Tea, Yogurt, Baptists

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.15, Penguin

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• Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

  Robbie Williams

  Woe Is Me, Life Is, Worst

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• Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

  Bernie Sanders

  Doctors, Order, Community

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

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• I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Sadness, Firsts

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Bird, Hiv

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• I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.

  Sarah Silverman

  Speak, Chemicals, Feels

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Animal, Suffering

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• It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel.

  Paul Washer

  Salvation, Shots, Invitations

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• Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the number of days a person is ill. The cold season should not be an excuse for the average person to refrain from exercising - working out at the gym, a brisk walk in the park or a jog through the neighborhood.

  Michael Flynn

  Exercise, Fighting, Average

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• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  David L. Katz

  War, People, Bird

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• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

  Toby Jones

  Years, Bob, Tests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

  Bob Garfield

  Letters, Chains

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• I am so pro-swine flu it's - it's like ridiculous.

  Bill Burr

  Ridiculous, Swine, Swine Flu

  "Bill Burr: Let It Go". TV Special, www.imdb.com. September 18, 2010.

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