Incurable Disease Quotes - Page 2

• I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

  Ken Adam

  Most Romantic, Combination, Bergman

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• There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Recovery, Disease, Alcoholism

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.

  Alistair Cooke

  Men, Fellow Man, Habit

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

  David Hume

  Passion, Ambition, Principles

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.

  Len Dawson

  Cancer, Mean, Spread

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• I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

  Cameron Diaz

  Believe, Love You, Heart

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Children, Tyrants, People

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan

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• A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Broken Heart, Hate, Disease

  Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage

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• You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Opportunity, Thinking

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Debt, Disease

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [268]

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• When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

  Nirmala Srivastava's speech during the Public Program Day 1 at Audimax University in Vienna, Austria, www.amruta.org. October 12, 1987.

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• You never know when you're making a memory.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Memories, Aging, Short Memory

  Song: Young Blood, 1990

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• You can do anything you think you can.

  Christopher Reeve

  Perseverance, Thinking, Persevere

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Equality, Disease

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.257

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• You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

  Robert Collier

  Thinking, Optimist, Can Do

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.250, Penguin

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• ...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice.

  Chris Higgins

  Animal, People, Choices

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• Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Civilization, People, Disease

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India

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• I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Believe, Disease, Admonition

  Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

  Nick Park

  Father, Photographer, Makers

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