Sick Quotes - Page 18

• I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

  Tracy Kidder

  Book, Writing, Sick World

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• Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

  Tracy Kidder

  Russia, Boston, World

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• In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Art, Believe, Doctors

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• Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.

  Tom Robbins

  Today, Wells

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• When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is about. ... A little tea or coffee restores them. ... There is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea.

  Florence Nightingale

  Coffee, Science, Tea

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.76

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• On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

  Winfrey Sanderson

  Basketball, Games, Sea

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• If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

  Walter Russell

  Tired, Thinking, Healthy

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• I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. I never made enough money from comics to be able to take a break and do something else. Now I just can't stand comics. . . . I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

  Julie Doucet

  Art, Drawing, People

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• Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

  Henry Waxman

  Tired, Political

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• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Nursing, Fire

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• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  Pat Summerall

  Believe, Scales, Score

  "Political Sex Scandal; Interview With Pat Summerall; 'Minding Your Business': Wal-Mart; '90-Second Pop'". "American Morning" with Bill Hemmer, Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

  Theresa May

  Tired, Government, People

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• I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.

  Layne Staley

  Hurt, Pain, Mistake

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• Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

  Samuel Rogers

  Regret, Father, Heart

  Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.178

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• Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.

  Wesley Willis

  Ass, Barbers, Barber Shop

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• The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.

  Patrick Leahy

  Tired, Being Lied, Lied

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

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• Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.

  Jesse Helms

  Weak, Homosexual

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• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Obligation, Family Oriented, Felt

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• If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

  Germaine Greer

  Baby, Thinking, Blood

  "The Female Eunuch". Book by Germaine Greer, 1970.

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• I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time

  Gavin DeGraw

  Bars, Attention, My Family

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• Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

  Italo Svevo

  Mirrors, People, Doe

  Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.163, Vintage

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• The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

  Rob Bell

  Marketing, Church, Sentences

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incredibly volatile, incredibly painful, and very frustrating. A man shouldn't be defined by his work, but I am.

  Scott Weiland

  Beautiful, Men, Addiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it

  Stephen Stills

  Want, Crosby, Living On

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• There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

  Major Owens

  Running, Thinking, People

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