Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard G. Scott

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

Robert Atkins

There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.

Laura Linney

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

Laura Linney

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

Laura Linney

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

Lance Armstrong

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

Lance Armstrong

Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.

Lance Armstrong

Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

Lance Armstrong

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

Daniel Johns

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Sinead O'Connor

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

Mariel Hemingway

There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make.

Sherry Stringfield

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Roberta Flack

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Winston Churchill

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

Vickie Simmons

Immediately, when you think of hospital, you think of doctors and nurses. But our hospital is a big place and there are lots of jobs.

Carroll Dawson

I'm optimistic about it because I just know how tough he is, and from what the doctors say, he's still got some miles left in that knee.

Mordecai Richler

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.