Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Ron Paul

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights' label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

Michael B. Jordan

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

John Wesley

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

John Steinbeck

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

Peter Agre

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.

E. B. White

Our culture tells us that alcohol and sex go together, yet it is illegal to use alcohol to facilitate sex.

Teresa Belew

This is one of the most high-risk times of the year for young people as they approach both prom and graduation. Unfortunately, the perception that it is a rite of passage and even expected for young people to drink and that adults provide alcohol to them is a very dangerous proposition.

Robert Eckels

Alcohol has a direct toxic effect on heart muscle.

Sammy Hagar

So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.

Tom Petty

The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.

Tucker Max

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

Todd Rundgren

I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience.

Mercedes McCambridge

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Mercedes McCambridge

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Boris Johnson

I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

Dave Obey

If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

Anna Sui

We have a lot of great vintage stores. I like shopping, in general, so I can simply go to a drugstore and shop.

Daniel Radcliffe

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

Doug Ose

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Doug Stanhope

If you have a good product. You don't need to advertise. You've done drugs? Did you ever see them advertised?

Anne Fadiman

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

Timothy Leary

You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

Ray Manzarek

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.