Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Rosenberg

Regular skin checkups to reduce the incidence of this deadly skin cancer must focus on those at high risk. Diagnosing melanoma early is critical to saving lives.

Margaret Walker

I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

Jake Owen

You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.

Henry Ford

Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,

James Randi

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

James Randi

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

James Hansen

...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Laura Evans

(I've learned) how important it is to really evaluate your own life...to pay attention to what's going on in your own head, and to know that this is (your) life...and make conscious decisions about how you want to live it.

Laura Evans

I'm going to beat it, ...it's hard...but I plan on being around for a long time to come.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Robert Wiley

We won't risk him. That's the most important thing,

Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

David Jeremiah

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

Connie Britton

The thing about taking risks is, if it’s really a risk, you really can fail. It’s only a pretend risk if you really can’t fail.

Colin Firth

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

Daniel Libeskind

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

David Morrison

We understand the risk from this object, and while it's small, it's not zero,

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Kirsten Gillibrand

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

Marya Hornbacher

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Mark Haddon

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

Milton Friedman

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

Mark Twain

It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.

Nicholas Negroponte

The process of debugging, going an correcting the program and then looking at the behavior, and then correcting it again, and finally iteratively getting it to a working program, is in fact, very close to learning about learning.

Mikhail Bulgakov

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Marguerite Yourcenar

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.