Famous Quotes & Sayings

We can't let it go because it's escalated. It's like an epidemic right now.

Kurt Vonnegut

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

There is no need for panic. This is not an epidemic spread from human to human.

We're still on the upslope of the epidemic curve.

We've got an epidemic up here of underage kids getting booze.

Bill Gates

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Bill Gates

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

Bill Gates

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

Women started smoking seriously 25 years ago, and the lag time for this epidemic has kicked in.

Jared Diamond

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

Brad Pitt

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Dennis Kucinich

We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

Will Estes

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day.

Chuck Klosterman

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Christopher McDougall

One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.

There's an epidemic of foreclosures. We're getting a steady stream of referrals of people who are looking for any option to save their home.

There's an epidemic going on throughout the country, and New York seems to be the hotbed.

At this stage there is no flu epidemic threatening society.

The North American West Nile virus epidemic persists.

There has been a level of complacency that has helped the epidemic spread.

Mike DeWine

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

Margaret Chan

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

Julie Gerberding

Other countries, like Hong Kong, have just not been able to keep the epidemic under control, and I wish we knew why,

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Kin Hubbard

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Sarah Parker

I liked the idea of this epidemic of not-so-young men still living at home.

Its an epidemic in the United States, and its croaking us,

George Bernard Shaw

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

The ministry has taken necessary measures for the big flu epidemic which the world expects.

What we really don't want to see is an epidemic of panic.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Jeanne Phillips

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

Tom Harkin

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.