Quotes and Sayings about Health
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Health, Body, Cheerfulness, Mind)
"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Health, Sickness)
"The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Health, Career, Problems, World)
"A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available."
- Daniel Akaka
(Related: Health, Pain, Suffering)
"There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education."
- Buzz Aldrin
(Related: Education, Health, Life, Choices, Comfort, Investment, Responsibility)
"I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Health, Goal, Care, Country)
"Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill."
- Lamar Alexander
(Related: Health, People, Care, Democrats, Months, Saying, Trying, Want, Washington, Will)
"Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Health, Life, Blood, Public)
"Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Health, Consequences, Crisis, Drinking, Light, Nation, Public, Shadow)
"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Abuse, America, Children, Country, Fight, October, Violence)
"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."
- James Allen
(Related: Happiness, Health, Being, Man, Prosperity, Result)
"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, American, Care, Entrepreneurs, Internet)
"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!"
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, Quality, American, Care, Giving, Will)
"To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, War, Opportunity, Belief, Care, Children, Tax, Iraq, Tax cuts)
"The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Optimism, Mind)
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
(Related: Health, First, Freedom)
"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."
- A. R. Ammons
(Related: Time, Health, Thoughts, Day, Events, Moods, Sight)
"The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness."
- Anacharsis
(Related: Health, First, Madness, Pleasure, Shame)
"It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise."
- Brady Anderson
(Related: Funny, Health, People, Battle)
"They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system."
- John Anderson
(Related: Health, Future)
"But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it."
- John Anderson
(Related: Design, Environmental, Time, End, Now, Objectives)
"I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease."
- Loni Anderson
(Related: Education, Health, Awareness, Disease)
"The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Life, Sleep)
"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Distrust, Folk, Paranoia, Will, Writers, Wrong)
"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Love, Health, Positive, Honor, Police, Prayer)
"When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important."
- Susan Anton
(Related: Smile)
"I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me."
- Fiona Apple
"People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked."
- Asia Argento
(Related: Sex, People)
"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Comparisons, Environment, Resentment)
"For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
- Owen Arthur
(Related: Health, Hope)
"There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day."
- Mackenzie Astin
(Related: Day, May, Nothing, Project, Rivalry)
"What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin."
- Dave Attell
(Related: Fish)
"Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say."
- W. H. Auden
(Related: Health, Medicine, Nothing, State)
"Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health."
- Avicenna
(Related: Health, Causes, Medicine, Sickness)
"The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves."
- David Axelrod
(Related: Health, Life, People, Ability, American, Building, Care, College, Country, Fact, Future, Job, Jobs, Kids, Right, Will)
"But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people."
- David Axelrod
(Related: Change, Health, People, Victory, Winning, American, Defeat, Fighting, Generations, Now, Reform, Right)
"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life."
- Roy Ayers
(Related: Life, Love, Music, Health, People, Heart, Being, Gifts, Play)
"Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no."
- Emanuel Azenberg
(Related: Theater, Will)
"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."
- Roger Babson
(Related: Money, Health, Power, Knowledge, Character, May, Property, Will)
"I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'"
- Lauren Bacall
(Related: Health, Friends)
"A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy."
- Lauren Bacall
(Related: Illness, Man)
"Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Health, Society, Financial, Beginning, Class, Exploitation, Play, Rules, Workers)
"Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Health, American, Healthcare, Workers)
"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Health, Wisdom, Hurt, Man, Observation, Rules)
"When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'."
- Kevin Bacon
(Related: Work, Children)
"Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care."
- Howard Baker
(Related: Education, Health, Balance, Care, Generations, Living)
"Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Health, People, Project, Support)
"To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth."
- Richard Baker
(Related: Health, Truth, Wealth, Risk)
"Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs."
- John Baldacci
(Related: Health, Goal, Care, Nation, State)
"The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality."
- Tammy Baldwin
(Related: Health, Countries, Mortality)
"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
- Albert Bandura
(Related: Faith, Power, People, Successful, Control, Ability, Effect, Exercise, Measure)
"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness."
- Harry F. Banks
(Related: Happiness, Success, Health)
"I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s."
- Bob Barker
(Related: Age, Health, Poor, Pretty)
"It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical."
- Clive Barker
(Related: Health, Dreams, Gods, Desire, Want, World)
"I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Diet, Now)
"We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Change, Success, People, Ability, Delight, Habits, Help, Old)
"Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Health, Time, Public)
"In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either."
- Neal Barnard
(Related: Health, Medical, Life, School)
"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul."
- Rona Barrett
(Related: Soul, Help, Needs)
"It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility."
- Maria Bartiromo
(Related: Now, Responsibility, Right, Saying, Talking)
"Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Day, Eating)
"Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans."
- Max Baucus
(Related: Americans, Rights, Respect)
"You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care."
- Max Baucus
(Related: Health, Care, Income, Worry)
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."
- Charles Baudelaire
(Related: Food, Poetry, Man)
"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either."
- Gary Bauer
(Related: Government, Health, Bureaucracy, Care, Company, Decisions, Washington)
"From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy."
- James Beattie
(Related: Health, Contentment, Joy, Spring)
"What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Rights, Healthcare)
"I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card."
- Victoria Beckham
(Related: Humor, Friend, Gold, Man, Sense)
"All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women."
- Thomas Beecham
(Related: Men, Women, America)
"Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude."
- Aphra Behn
(Related: Health, Jealousy, Nothing, Reason, Solitude)
"When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Time)
"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Equality, Education, Health, Values, Children, Corporate, Mission, Protection, World)
"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
- Hilaire Belloc
(Related: Men, Instinct)
"From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Health, Life, Problems)
"Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread."
- Dirk Benedict
(Related: Success, Time, Health, Failure, Anticipation, Hollywood, Sickness)
"Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible."
- Michael Bennett
(Related: Health, Thought, Care, Vote)
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."
- Robert Foster Bennett
(Related: Health, Success, Control, Desire, Mental health)
"I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Health, Kids, Sleep)
"It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system."
- Phil Berger
(Related: Health, Being, Disease, Fun)
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman
(Related: Happiness, Health, Memory)
"Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health."
- Howard Berman
(Related: Health, Consequences, Quick)
"The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us."
- Shelley Berman
(Related: Health, Love, Money, Old, Problems, Security)
"I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way."
- Corbin Bernsen
(Related: Being, Emotion, Excitement)
"It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, American, Care, World)
"Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, Wealth, Care, Healthcare)
"Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, War, Care, Competition, Doctors, Hospitals, Right, Talk)
"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, Love, Care, Help, Right, Suffering, Trying)
"We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does."
- Donald Berwick
(Related: Health, Care, Choices)
"I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next."
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
(Related: Time, Night, Waste)
"Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Business, Health, Americans, Care, Driving, Drugs, Physicians, State, World)
"There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Health, Time, People, World)
"Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Health, Life, Medical, Science, Public, Research, World)
"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Health, Care, Prevention)
"And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet."
- Julie Bishop
(Related: Diet, Health, Exercise, Public, Today)
"We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Health, American, Care, Company, Job, Right)
"A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems."
- Tim Bishop
(Related: Economy, Nation)
"The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be."
- Mark Bittman
(Related: Health, Work, Crisis, Evil)
"If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat."
- Lewis Black
(Related: Health, Eating, Ego, Now, Will)
"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies."
- Harry A. Blackmun
(Related: Health, Women, Life, Potential, states)
"Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development."
- Elizabeth Blackwell
(Related: Education, Development, Rules, School)
"Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Food, Health, Home, Children, Commitment, Community, Eating, Habits, School)
"Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Education, Health, Care, Chance, Civil rights, Giving, Privilege, Public)
"Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do."
- Rod Blagojevich
(Related: Health, Men, Women, Care, Fact, Woman, Years)
"I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals."
- Bonnie Blair
(Related: Health, Success, Goals)
"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
- Rachel Blanchard
(Related: Body)
"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."
- Michael Bloomberg
(Related: Health, Care, Employees)
"The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: Health, Policy, Strategy, Care, Foreign policy, Mistakes)
"On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made."
- Sidney Blumenthal
(Related: Health, Care, Error)
"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"
- John Boehner
(Related: American, Healthcare, President, Saying)
"Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions."
- John Boehner
(Related: Health, Mistake, Care, Democrats, Vote)
"I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes."
- John Boehner
(Related: Debt, Energy, Tax, Healthcare, Taxes, Trade, Want, Washington)
"America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Afghanistan, America, Americans, Future, Harm, Iraq, Public, Safety)
"Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Life, Technology, Growth, Agriculture, Care, Defense, Economy, Future, Job, Will)
"It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Time, Control, Care, Chance, Economy, Jobs, Needs)
"When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Education, Health, People, Care, Countries, Rights, Generosity, Human rights, Principles, Solidarity)
"The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded."
- Frederick W. Borden
(Related: Health, Resignation, Rumor, State, Will)
"We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Health, Healthcare, Retirement, Workers)
"Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Health, Day, Majority, Reform, Rules, Senate, Senators)
"Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Health, Medical, Care, Company, Decisions, professionals)
"Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality."
- Allen Boyd
(Related: Education, Government, Health, Men, Women, Benefits, Care, Nation, Promises, Reality, Rhetoric)
"We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense."
- Andrew Coyle Bradley
(Related: Folly, Language, Selfishness, Sense, Tyranny, Violence)
"We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue."
- Sarah Brady
(Related: Health, People, Public, Safety)
"If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick."
- Eric Braeden
(Related: Health, Work, End, Living)
"I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives."
- Zach Braff
(Related: Health, People, Medicine, Mental health)
"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them."
- Johannes Brahms
(Related: Health, Hatred, Jealousy, Rank, Suspicion, Trying)
"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause."
- Nathaniel Branden
(Related: Health, Achievement, Cause, Expression, Self)
"I'm committed to universal health coverage and education."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Education, Health)
"When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'"
- John Breaux
(Related: Health, God, People, Care, Defense, Tax)
"Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance."
- John Breaux
(Related: Health, Work, People, Help, Job)
"And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene."
- John Breaux
(Related: Government, Health, Education, Care, Help, Now, Play, Right, State, Trying, Washington)
"A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living."
- Gerald Brenan
(Related: Fool, Living, Old)
"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors."
- George Brett
(Related: Chance, Errors)
"There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend."
- Chris A. Bridges
(Related: Health, Friend, Nothing)
"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."
- Anita Brookner
(Related: Idea, Decisions, World)
"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Success, Failure)
"You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Health, Care)
"Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance."
- Corrine Brown
(Related: Health, People, America, Right, Today)
"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."
- Helen Gurley Brown
(Related: Health, Money)
"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Health, People, Attitude, American, Care, Force, Opposition, Public, Washington)
"Nearly one in ten Americans are still out of work. And still, the President and Congress are focused on ramming through their health-care bill, whatever it takes, whatever the cost."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Health, Work, Americans, Congress, President)
"In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?"
- Scott Brown
(Related: Health, America, Care, President, Speech, Taxes, Will)
"The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Business, Health, Work, People, America, Care, Debt, State, Will)
"My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs."
- David Bruce
(Related: Health, Knowledge, President, State)
"When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death."
- Tammy Bruce
(Related: Death, Health, People, Americans, Care)
"Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Action, Control, Media, Prevention, Service)
"Health is the core of human development."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Development)
"The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Women, People, Hunger, Needs, Will)
"That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Development, Reality)
"This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Work, Cause, Cure, Needs, Now, World)
"Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Women, Priorities)
"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Environmental, Health, Development, Security)
"This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Public, Will)
"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Development, Years)
"Investing in health will produce enormous benefits."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Benefits, Will)
"More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Environmental, Development, Countries, Understanding)
"Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones."
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(Related: Health, Strategy, Development, Prevention, Risk, World)
"Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education."
- John Bruton
(Related: Education, Work, Health, People, Country, Rights, Road, Safety, states)
"Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property."
- Jean de la Bruyere
(Related: Health, Conscience, Property)
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."
- Buddha
(Related: Health, Body, Duty, Mind)
"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."
- Buddha
(Related: Happiness, Peace, Wisdom, Family, Health, Control, Discipline, Virtue, First, Man, Mind, Will)
"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."
- Buddha
(Related: Death, Health, Life, State, Suffering)
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
- Buddha
(Related: Health, Wealth, Contentment, Faithfulness)
"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death."
- Frederick Buechner
(Related: Death, Health, Life, Heart, Help, Mind)
"Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: Health, Baby, Today)
"In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living."
- Luther Burbank
(Related: Progress, Children, Evolution, Living, Principles, World)
"If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Health, Virtue, May)
"The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem."
- T-Bone Burnett
(Related: Business, Health, Art, People, Compromise, Learning, Now)
"I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps."
- Carter Burwell
(Related: Health, People, End, May, Sleep)
"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Love, Instinct, Reason)
"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Family, Religion, Health, Money, Christian, Chastity, Temper, Want)
"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Health, Money, Man, Reputation)
"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Conservative, Nothing)
"Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Faith, Benefits, Healthcare, Nation, Veterans)
"I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses."
- Rose Byrne
(Related: Women, Competition, Solidarity, Support)
"But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life."
- George Cadbury
(Related: Family, Life, Thought, Opportunity, Garden, Man, Will)
"I've always enjoyed poor health."
- Taylor Caldwell
(Related: Health, Poor)
"I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health."
- John Cameron
(Related: Health, Now)
"I have no regrets. I've got my health."
- Naomi Campbell
(Related: Health)
"But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Will)
"I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Health, People, American, Care)
"But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: People, Country, Direction, Fact, Healthcare, Months, Night)
"We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Health, People, American, Care, Meetings, President, Want)
"You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it."
- Eric Cantor
(Related: Health, Money, People, Care, Country, Focus, Safety)
"I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character."
- Lizzy Caplan
(Related: People, Character, Aggression, Being, Kids, School)
"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Diet, Experience, Fitness, Americans, Children, Effort, School)
"Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Health, Communication, First, Nurses, Wrong)
"Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Health, Women, Research, Will)
"Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Age, Health, May)
"I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health."
- Lois Capps
(Related: Health, American, Awareness, Events, Nation, Public, Want)
"Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way."
- Donald L. Carcieri
(Related: American, Compromise, Debate, Leading)
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Health, Hope)
"Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs."
- Mel Carnahan
(Related: Health, Quality, Care, Jobs, Training, Welfare)
"I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Health, Technology, Care, Information, Potential, states, Support, Today, United)
"I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day."
- Karen Carpenter
(Related: Health, Day, Nothing)
"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself."
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Food, Sex, Day, Drinking, Man, Right, Smoking)
"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Success, Health, Peace, Job, Will)
"The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Health, History, Control, Awareness, Destiny, First, Habits)
"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Food, Health, Abstinence, Excess)
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Food, Health, Constitution)
"Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service."
- Barbara Castle
(Related: Health, Ideals, Service)
"My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life."
- Paul Cezanne
(Related: Age, Art, Health, Life, Dream, Will)
"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects."
- Jack L. Chalker
(Related: History, Science, Technology, Health, College, Fiction, School)
"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
- Margaret Chan
(Related: Business, Change, Health, Actions, Community, Now)
"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"
- Chanakya
(Related: Death, Soul, Control, Body)
"Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people."
- Graham Chapman
(Related: Health, People, Care, Old, Worry)
"We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier."
- Brandi Chastain
(Related: Kids, Leaders)
"Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Time)
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Health, Perseverance, Climate, Dress, Exercise, Temperance)
"Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Health, Humor, Soul, Poison, Sadness)
"With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Health, Body, Mind, Trouble, Trying)
"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Health, Hygiene, Indifference, Man)
"It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Sentiment)
"By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Health, Control, Care, Ownership)
"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Repentance)
"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Health, Life, Benefits, Care, Career, Investment, Old, Retirement, State, Will, Years)
"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Family, Health, Medical, Vision, Benefits, Care, Career, Nothing, Will)
"Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Diet, Exercise)
"My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Health, Father, Old, Years)
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: People)
"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Country)
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Attention, Body, Criticism, May, Pain, State)
"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Health, Body, Mind)
"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Health)
"I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is."
- Laurel Clark
(Related: Health, Computer, Problems)
"As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that."
- Roy Clark
(Related: Development, Confidence, Makeup, Potential, Pride, Scouting, Will)
"The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it."
- Kenneth Clarke
(Related: Health, Conservative, Man, Party)
"Keep up hope for a better economy, more jobs, better wages, affordable healthcare and all the issues we have brought into focus."
- Bob Clement
(Related: Hope, Economy, Focus, Healthcare, Jobs, Wages)
"I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking."
- Clarence Clemons
(Related: Love, Health, Cooking, France, Growing up, Italy, Spain)
"The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health."
- John Clifford
(Related: Health)
"You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Family, Health, Legal, Abortion, Planning)
"But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Environmental, Health, Benefits, Dependence, Energy, Nation, National security, Oil)
"Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Education, Americans, Democrats, Direction, Fighting, Healthcare, Security)
"Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Government, Health, Authority, Care, Democrats, Giving, Reform)
"Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Health, Failure, Americans, Republicans)
"We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live."
- Jim Clyburn
(Related: Children, Earth, Environment, Responsibility)
"I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues."
- Howard Coble
(Related: Health, Leadership, Government, Care, Causes, Taxes, Terrorism)
"My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy."
- Howard Coble
(Related: Home, Health, Population, State, states, United)
"And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier."
- Tom Coburn
(Related: Science, Thought, Fact, Today)
"Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle."
- Sasha Cohen
(Related: Work, Dreams, Exercise, Practice, Variety)
"A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice."
- Sasha Cohen
(Related: Exercise, Help, Injury, Order)
"I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress."
- Dabney Coleman
(Related: Work, Fun)
"Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system."
- Norm Coleman
(Related: Society, America, Example, Living, News, Pressure, Retirement, Security)
"And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Beauty, Food, Health, Books, Eating, Habits)
"I think health is another exceedingly important thing."
- Joan Collins
(Related: Health)
"Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers."
- Susan Collins
(Related: Family, Health, Budgets, Burden, Public, Workers)
"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
- Barbara Colorose
(Related: Job, Kids, Teachers)
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Health, Company, Disease, Vices)
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Friendship, Health, Sound, Value)
"Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long."
- Shawn Colvin
(Related: Life, Cynic, Cynicism, Pleasure)
"The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Health, Wife, Character, Man)
"The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Government, Health, Care)
"Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Health, Work, Care, Legislation, Reform)
"The time is now for Congress to address health care in America."
- John Conyers
(Related: Health, Time, America, Care, Congress, Now)
"Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy."
- John Conyers
(Related: Health, America, Care, Economy, Inflation)
"Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system."
- John Conyers
(Related: Health, Americans, Care, Country, Suffering)
"In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization."
- John Conyers
(Related: Health, Care, Force, Illness, Nation, State, Workers, World)
"Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling."
- Charles Horton Cooley
(Related: Country, Dependence, Feeling, Pity)
"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Health, Money, Body, Existence)
"We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction."
- Alice Cooper
(Related: Walking)
"We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform."
- Kenneth H. Cooper
(Related: Fitness, Health, Ability, Doubt, Shadow, Testing, Want, Youth)
"We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse."
- Jon Corzine
(Related: Abuse, Alcohol, Behavior, Drinking, Parents, Youth)
"While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Health, People, Benefits)
"Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Health, Care, Economy, Engineering, Jobs, Unemployment, Workers)
"Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness."
- Jerry Costello
(Related: Health, Nation)
"I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Democrats, Healthcare)
"Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: First, Healthcare, Office)
"You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go."
- Katie Couric
(Related: Health, Cooking, Light, Personality)
"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
- Norman Cousins
(Related: Health, Science, Answers, Healing, May, Problems)
"You know Manchester is always a bit of a hard place for people coming from London, just with all the history. Manchester has this immensely huge and healthy history musically."
- Graham Coxon
(Related: History, People, London)
"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."
- Peter Coyote
(Related: Business, Economy, Environment)
"It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health."
- Michael Crapo
(Related: Health, Intelligence, Government, Children, Choices, Job, Responsibility, Sense)
"Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians."
- Michael Crapo
(Related: Health, Men, Life, Care, Doctors, Embarrassment, Physicians)
"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: Health, Neighbors)
"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Health, America, Care, Caring)
"I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate."
- Warren Cuccurullo
(Related: Diet, Food, Thought)
"The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's."
- Warren Cuccurullo
(Related: Fitness, Health)
"In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities."
- Elijah Cummings
(Related: Health, Work, Events, Healthcare, Minority, Needs)
"Happiness lies first of all in health."
- George William Curtis
(Related: Happiness, Health, First, Lies)
"Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle."
- Evan Dando
"We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care."
- Mitch Daniels
(Related: Health, Care, Choices, Now, State)
"In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Health, Law, Reason)
"People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care."
- Tom Daschle
(Related: Education, Health, People, Opportunity, Care, Economy, National security)
"It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards."
- Ron Davies
(Related: Health, Performance, Purpose, Care)
"It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East."
- Richard H. Davis
(Related: Health, Circumstances, Content, Temper)
"It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS."
- Bruce Davison
(Related: People, Dying, Suffering)
"A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health."
- Clarence Day
(Related: Health, Money, Addiction, Excess, May)
"Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics."
- Mark Dayton
(Related: Health, Politics, Women, Children, Environment, Harm, Mercury, Public, Will)
"Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women."
- Mark Dayton
(Related: Health, Men, Women, Afghanistan, Benefits, Care, Iraq, Mental health, Problems, Service, Soldiers)
"Arguments are healthy. They clear the air."
- John Deacon
(Related: Arguments)
"For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Health, Opportunity, Beginning, Community, May, Nurses, Will, Years)
"If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Food, Health, Information, Interest, Public, State)
"Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Health, Work, Care, Nurses)
"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
- Thomas Dekker
(Related: Health, Sleep)
"I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today."
- Rosa DeLauro
(Related: Health, Attention, Body, Mental health, Today, Troops)
"We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world."
- Jim DeMint
(Related: Work, Positive, Acting, Americans, Economy, Force, Nation, World)
"My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy."
- James Denton
(Related: Home, Wife, Being, Pretty)
"I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy."
- Eric Dickerson
(Related: Love, Day, Fame)
"I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap."
- Casper Van Dien
"A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization."
- Wilhelm Dilthey
(Related: Society, Civilization, Knowledge, Progress, Causes, Concern)
"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Life, Power, Health, Men, Conscience, Fame, Pleasure)
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Happiness, Health, People, State)
"So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Eating, Right)
"Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: People, Discipline, Eating)
"There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Wife, Choice)
"It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Life, Quality, People, Body)
"I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Energy, Past, Want)
"I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much."
- Mike Ditka
(Related: Exercise, Help, Rest)
"Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner."
- Frank Dobson
(Related: Death, Health, People, Being, Cause, Causes, Dying, Now, Smoking)
"All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Health, Quality, Americans, Care)
"Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Health, Work, Development, Rights, Needs, Will)
"I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living."
- Lexa Doig
(Related: Living)
"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles."
- Placido Domingo
(Related: Health, Voice)
"And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel."
- Richard Dooling
(Related: Health, Life, Medical, Impression, Care, End, Treatment)
"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
- Byron Dorgan
(Related: Ownership)
"A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement."
- James H. Douglas
(Related: Health, Family, Home, Discipline, Community, Independence, Job, Retirement, Welfare)
"I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Health, Education, Women, Care, Honor, Years)
"In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Health, Medical, Women, Goal)
"I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign."
- Karen Duffy
(Related: Age, Health, Public, Service)
"We will have health care reform in America."
- Dick Durbin
(Related: Health, America, Care, Reform, Will)
"If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors."
- Dick Durbin
(Related: Health, People, Care, Hurt, Nothing, Republicans)
"And he that will this health deny, down among the dead men let him lie."
- John Dyer
(Related: Health, Men, Lie, Will)
"I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us."
- Sylvia Earle
(Related: Health, Hope, Help, Ocean, Will)
"It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Work, Building, Future, Planning, Race)
"Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind."
- Mary Baker Eddy
(Related: Health, Mind)
"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
- Tryon Edwards
(Related: Age, Men, Health, Old, Temperament, Years)
"My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Education, Health, Children, Commitment, Focus, Future, Projects, Safety, Today, Will)
"Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich
(Related: Family, Life, Work, Quality, Opportunity, Financial, Building, Healthcare, Schools, Security)
"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Health, Life, Soul, Devil)
"Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system."
- Larry Elder
(Related: Health, War, Home, People, American, Drugs, Justice, Politicians, Troops, Will)
"We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs."
- Doug Elmendorf
(Related: Health, Care, Legislation, Responsibility)
"The first wealth is health."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Health, Wealth, First)
"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Health, Eye)
"While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos."
- Eliot Engel
(Related: Health, Chaos, Independence, Poor, Poverty, Years)
"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie."
- Nora Ephron
(Related: Health, Adolescence, Problems, Television, Will)
"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."
- Erik H. Erikson
(Related: Death, Life, Fear, Children, Integrity, Will)
"We will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury."
- Andrew von Eschenbach
(Related: Health, Cause, Illness, Injury, Public, Will)
"I stand before you a totally healthy person."
- Melissa Etheridge
"A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty."
- Lane Evans
(Related: Health, Education, Care, Tax, Names, Nation, Poverty, Security, Tax cuts, Taxes)
"Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health."
- Robert Evans
(Related: Health, Aesthetics, Attention)
"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known."
- William Falconer
(Related: Health, Consequences, Measure, Numbers, Vices)
"Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society."
- William Falconer
(Related: Society, Health, Life, Temptations, Vice)
"Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality."
- William Falconer
(Related: Health, Life, Eating, Mortality)
"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
- Oriana Fallaci
(Related: Politics, Sacrifice, Writing, Years)
"As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it."
- Susan Faludi
(Related: Women, Fact, Scientists)
"So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Health, Care, Disease, Right)
"We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Health, Countries, Mortality, Problems, Sense)
"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Health, Care, Extreme, Limitations, Poverty, Promise)
"But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Health, Care, Justice, Medicine, Opinion, Public)
"My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform."
- Mike Farrell
(Related: Dreams, Family, Work, People, Future, Rights, Human rights, Reform, Struggle)
"The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible."
- Suzanne Farrell
(Related: Ballet, Dancing, Fact)
"I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition."
- Suzanne Farrell
(Related: Competition, Tests)
"Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies."
- Chaka Fattah
(Related: Health, Americans, Jobs)
"Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone."
- Russ Feingold
(Related: Health, Time, Americans, Care, Congress, Past, President, Today)
"I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care."
- Diane Feinstein
(Related: Health, Medical, Money, Work, Care, Profit, Reform, Will)
"Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less."
- Diane Feinstein
(Related: Health, Goal, Americans, Doctors, First, Hospitals, Today)
"Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation."
- Dianne Feinstein
(Related: Health, Americans, Internet, Nation, Physicians, Safety)
"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency."
- Peter Fenn
(Related: Democracy, Open)
"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them."
- Marilyn Ferguson
(Related: Health, Fear, Illness, Information, Self, Treasure)
"America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken."
- Mike Ferguson
(Related: Health, Medical, America, Care, Doctors, Nurses, World)
"What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion."
- Geraldine Ferraro
(Related: Religion, HusbHealth, Strength, Kids)
"We all want to look younger, become stronger and healthier and live longer."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Want)
"It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy."
- Mike Figgis
(Related: Control, Actors, Managers)
"With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county."
- Bob Filner
(Related: Health, Care)
"I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful."
- Joely Fisher
(Related: Quest)
"The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Health, Decision, Care, Drugs, May, Options, Will, Years)
"Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Health, Burden, Care, Elderly, Will)
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
- Gustave Flaubert
(Related: Health, Happiness, Stupidity)
"Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens."
- Ari Fleischer
(Related: Health, People, America, American, Care, Economy, Iraq, State, Will)
"By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children."
- Mark Foley
(Related: Education, Development, Character, Values, Children, Parents, Schools, Students)
"The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom."
- Steve Forbes
(Related: Government, Health, Care, Cure, Freedom, Today)
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Exercise)
"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Business)
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
- Redd Foxx
(Related: Health, Dying, Hospitals, Lying, Nothing)
"The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet."
- Virginia Foxx
(Related: Diet, Exercise, Kids, Obesity)
"But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Policy, Efficiency, Inequality, Public, Public policy, Will)
"Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Family, Health, Medical, Generations, Prevention, Problems, Relationships, Struggle, Suicide, Violence, Years)
"Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians."
- Malcolm Fraser
(Related: Health, Care)
"I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size."
- Anna Friel
(Related: Baby, Right)
"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Health, Medical, Technology, America, Care, Country, Doctors, Hospitals, Nurses, Reason, World)
"America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Health, America, Care, World)
"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."
- David Frost
(Related: Love, Night)
"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside."
- Alberto Fujimori
(Related: Health, Life, Being, Crisis, Solution, Want)
"Health is not valued till sickness comes."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Health, Sickness)
"When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change."
- Annette Funicello
(Related: Change, Life)
"I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off."
- Peter Gabriel
(Related: Music, Choices, Environment)
"I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever."
- Peter Gabriel
(Related: Protection, Will)
"In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Health)
"Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on."
- Elton Gallegly
(Related: Work, American, Blind, Country, Eye, Healthcare, Law, states, United)
"It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Health, Wealth, Gold)
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Wisdom)
"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Progress, Discontent)
"There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well."
- Peter Garrett
(Related: Health, Time, Environment, Right)
"There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands."
- Peter Garrett
(Related: Health, Will)
"A totally healthy actor is a paradox."
- Vittorio Gassman
(Related: Actor, Paradox)
"I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know."
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
(Related: Marathon)
"The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?"
- Susan George
(Related: Education, Fight, Healthcare)
"What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both."
- Dick Gephardt
(Related: Values, Democracy, Desire, Freedom, Speech)
"Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats."
- Dick Gephardt
(Related: Family, People, Health, Democrats, Tax, Help, Want)
"The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed."
- Jami Gertz
(Related: Health)
"Because I would give it all back to have my health."
- David Gest
(Related: Health)
"Patenting and purchase of lands are absolutely vital to the health of Nevada's rural communities."
- Jim Gibbons
(Related: Health)
"Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party."
- Ed Gillespie
(Related: Party, Republican)
"The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Business, Health, Nature, Growth, American, Care, Economy, Will)
"The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Health, Time, Care, Congress)
"America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care."
- Paul Gillmor
(Related: Health, America, Care, Country, Doctors, World, Years)
"We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?"
- Newt Gingrich
(Related: Healthcare, Reform)
"There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create."
- John Glover
(Related: Love, Actor)
"I'm as healthy as an ox."
- Julie Gold
"All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys."
- Tracey Gold
(Related: Boys)
"A major difference between witches and psychotherapists is that witches see the mental health of women as having important political consequences."
- Naomi R. Goldenberg
(Related: Health, Women, Consequences, Difference, Mental health, Witches)
"In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Health, Wife, Benefits, Employees)
"I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Fitness, Health, Sports, People, Positive, Mental health, Results)
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
- Billy Graham
(Related: Health, Character, Wealth, Nothing)
"The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill."
- Lindsey Graham
(Related: Government, Healthcare, Old, Washington)
"Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Health, Years)
"I like exercise. I like a healthy body."
- Erin Gray
(Related: Body, Exercise)
"There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people."
- Christine Gregoire
(Related: Health, People, Care, Nation, Reason, World)
"In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before."
- Christine Gregoire
(Related: Health, People, Care, Giving)
"Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare."
- William Greider
(Related: People, Healthcare, Retirement, Wages)
"If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder."
- William Greider
(Related: Finance, Money, Country, Healthcare, Income, Wage, Will)
"Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Health, Control, Americans, Congress, Eyes, Identity, Information, Numbers, Security, Want)
"According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen."
- Luis Gutierrez
(Related: Health, Americans, Rights, Privacy, Theft, Victims)
"Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot."
- Jessica Hagedorn
(Related: Men, Movies, Women, Action, Exploitation, Film, Growing up, Now)
"Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Health, Problems)
"The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed."
- Samuel Hahnemann
(Related: People)
"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Health, Soul)
"They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Work, Film, Respect)
"A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages."
- Jerry Hall
(Related: Life, Love)
"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."
- Robert Hall
(Related: Health, Burden, Care, Economy)
"The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected."
- William Hall
(Related: Happiness, Health, Duty, Sexes)
"Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis."
- Geri Halliwell
(Related: People)
"We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active."
- Susan Hampshire
(Related: Age, Concern, Example, Living)
"The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results."
- Lee Haney
(Related: Diet, Results, Training)
"As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life."
- Lee Haney
(Related: Fitness, Life, Sports, Father, People, Parents, Past)
"A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses."
- Lee Haney
(Related: Health, Heart, Blood, Cancer, Disease, Fighting, Holiday, Key, Pressure)
"The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market."
- Pauline Hanson
(Related: Health, Medical, Drugs, Experts, Hospitals, World)
"America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention."
- Tom Harkin
(Related: Health, Wellness, America, Care, Crisis, Neglect, Prevention)
"Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system."
- Tom Harkin
(Related: Health, America, Care, Today)
"I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Determination, Hollywood, Mind, Now)
"You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do."
- Renny Harlin
(Related: Criticism, World)
"Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy."
- Marvin Harris
(Related: Food, Americans, Being, First, Growing up)
"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."
- Louise Hart
(Related: Happiness, Health, Mental health, Self)
"When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Health, America, Care, Doctors, Hospitals)
"Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Healthcare, Today)
"In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: Health, Money, Care, Veterans)
"My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star."
- Teri Hatcher
(Related: Goals, Advice)
"I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health."
- Teri Hatcher
(Related: Health)
"I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare."
- Steven Hatfill
(Related: Government, Health, Country, Help, Public, Service)
"We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time."
- Paul Hawken
(Related: Time, Health, Living, Losing, Stability)
"I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am."
- John Hawkes
(Related: Actor, Help, Training)
"Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Will)
"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention."
- John Hawley
(Related: Family, Health, Attention, Exercise, May)
"It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Related: Health, Care, Companionship, Habits, Man)
"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."
- Rutherford B. Hayes
(Related: Health, Country)
"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Beauty, Health, Eye, Fire, Spirits, Talk)
"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."
- Patricia Heaton
(Related: Family, Work, Burden, Disability, Disease, Kids)
"For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves."
- Anne Heche
"Sex without love is merely healthy exercise."
- Robert A. Heinlein
(Related: Love, Sex, Exercise)
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
- Robert A. Heinlein
(Related: Happiness, Love, Disease, Jealousy, Mind, Mistakes)
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
- Lillian Hellman
(Related: People, America, Mistakes, Past, Want)
"Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living."
- Mariel Hemingway
(Related: People, Alcohol, Drugs, Exercise, Habits, Living, Needs, Pain)
"Lack of time is a real health killer."
- Marilu Henner
(Related: Health, Time)
"Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life."
- Marilu Henner
(Related: Life, Control, Management, Being, Day, Expectations, Living, Stress)
"Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well."
- Marilu Henner
"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship."
- Patrick Henry
(Related: Health, Citizenship, Commerce, Freedom)
"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Happiness, Health)
"Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health."
- George Herbert
(Related: Health, Love, Mistake, Wealth, Language, Nothing)
"For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism."
- Walter Rudolf Hess
(Related: Health, Man, Sickness)
"A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Health, Care, Needs)
"As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation."
- Patricia Hewitt
(Related: Health, Care, Today)
"A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health."
- Gilbert Highet
(Related: Health, Interest, Value)
"This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption."
- Jim Hightower
(Related: Health, Corruption, Delay, Public)
"I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project."
- Laura Hillenbrand
(Related: Health, Work, Ability, Fatigue, Now, Poor, Project, Right)
"Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals."
- Bernard Hinault
(Related: Health, Drugs)
"Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years."
- Jerome Hines
(Related: Health, Years)
"As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Health, Financial, Americans, Identity, Importance, Information, Now, Problems, Theft)
"The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Health, Education, Quality, People, Care, Jobs, Water)
"At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Education, Quality, Americans, Children, Drugs, Healthcare, Job, Military, National security, Retirement, Want)
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Health, Exercise, Right)
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
- Hippocrates
(Related: Health, Thought, Blessings, Man)
"Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Health, Control, American, Disease, Healthcare, Leaders, Now, Today)
"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy."
- Chris Van Hollen
(Related: Education, Health, War, Quality, People, Policy, American, Care, Children, Congress, End, Energy, Iraq, Needs, Retirement, Secur)
"The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on."
- Jose Ramos Horta
(Related: Government, Education, Health, Development, Approval, Parliament, Public, Support)
"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: Religion, Obsession, Possession, Result, Trying, Youth)
"The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits."
- Mike Huckabee
(Related: Health, Work, Being, Benefits, Care, Reward)
"One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away."
- Mike Huckabee
(Related: Health, Care, Democrats, Republicans, Running, Wonder)
"I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack."
- Vanessa Hudgens
(Related: Eating)
"It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Health, Time, Care)
"Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Environmental, Health, Control, Growth, Pollution, Protection, Remarkable, Years)
"During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state."
- Jane D. Hull
(Related: Health, State)
"I think VAR is a very healthy development within the industry."
- John Hull
(Related: Development)
"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
- Leigh Hunt
(Related: Happiness, Health)
"I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy."
- Tab Hunter
(Related: Health, Jeopardy)
"I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Education, Money, Budgets, Economy, Example, Healthcare, Help, Will)
"I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck."
- Anjelica Huston
(Related: Relationships)
"We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards."
- John Hutton
(Related: Health, Europe, Safety, states)
"From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives."
- John Hutton
(Related: Health, Time, People, Choice)
"People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it."
- Henrik Ibsen
(Related: Time, People, Decency, Waste)
"Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals."
- Ivan Illich
(Related: Health, People, Medicine)
"Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery."
- Ivan Illich
(Related: Health, Care, Discovery, Fact, Self)
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die."
- Ivan Illich
(Related: Diet, Work, People, Growth, Dying, Environment, Healing)
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."
- Jean Ingelow
(Related: Beauty, Life, Idea, Hunger)
"But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill."
- Laura Ingraham
(Related: Health, People, American, Care, Party, Tea)
"Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Health, Mistake, People, American)
"The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment."
- Muhammed Iqbal
(Related: Health, Life, Purpose, Destiny, Direction, Ego, Environment, Evolution, Present, Religious)
"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Health, Women, Care, Support, Violence)
"The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night."
- Edward Irving
(Related: Health, Home, Night, Poor, State)
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
- Washington Irving
(Related: Dignity)
"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."
- Holbrook Jackson
(Related: Art, Health, Time, Day, Illness, Joy, Night, Reading, Sorrow)
"I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true."
- Jesse Jackson
(Related: Health, Americans, Being, Care, Fight, Media, Race)
"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."
- Mahalia Jackson
(Related: Faith, Health, Soul, Man, Prayer)
"I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that."
- Derek Jacobi
(Related: Health)
"Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare."
- Helmut Jahn
"Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf."
- William James
(Related: Heart, Caution, Errors, Nervousness, World)
"Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Music, Health, People, Company, Fashion)
"One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Health, Goals, Reform)
"Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Health, Mind, President, Reform)
"The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Health, Money, Education, American, Care, Energy, Independence, Jobs, Will)
"We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Health, Quality, Care, Want)
"For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered."
- Valerie Jarrett
(Related: Health, Time, Want)
"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Health, Exercise, Learning, Reading, Recreation, Will, Worth)
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Happiness, Life, Health, Chance, Conscience, Freedom, Occupation, Result)
"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."
- Tahar Ben Jelloun
(Related: Knowledge, Desire, World)
"We drink one another's health and spoil our own."
- Jerome K. Jerome
(Related: Health)
"I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet."
- Joan Jett
(Related: Nature, Science, Time, Peace, Animals, Being, Reading, Spiritual, Trying, Universe)
"On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Family, Possibility, Thanksgiving, Will)
"My background is in health care."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Health, Care)
"When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Health, Care, Congress, Help)
"Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us."
- Mike Johanns
(Related: Health, Science, Success, Decision, Countries, Language)
"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."
- Henry St. John
(Related: Happiness, Health, Society, Body, Liberty, Man, Pleasure)
"I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better."
- Daniel Johns
(Related: Health, Positive)
"I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment."
- Daniel Johns
(Related: Health, People, Animals, Being, Benefits, Eating, Talking, Testing, Trying)
"I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks."
- Darren L. Johnson
(Related: People, Environment)
"The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented."
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
(Related: Health, Fact, Pollution)
"I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great."
- Kevin Johnson
(Related: Health, Years)
"Every child in America deserves high-quality health care."
- Nancy L. Johnson
(Related: Health, America, Care)
"The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active."
- Rafer Johnson
(Related: Health, Fitness, People, Opportunity, Kids, Old, Years)
"We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'"
- Tim Johnson
(Related: Health, Idea, Care, Country, Privilege, Right, World)
"I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic."
- Kristen Johnston
(Related: People, Being, Woman)
"The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet."
- James Earl Jones
(Related: Health, Nation)
"I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12."
- January Jones
(Related: Dad, Health, Sports)
"In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together."
- Star Jones
(Related: Honesty, Journey, Mind)
"I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying."
- Star Jones
(Related: Dying)
"Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you."
- Star Jones
(Related: Health, Work, Control, Honesty)
"I want people to make the same choice I made to get healthy."
- Star Jones
(Related: People, Choice, Want)
"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique."
- Benjamin Jowett
(Related: Health, Action, Wealth, Justice, Kindness, Learning)
"The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Man)
"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Death, Life, Purpose)
"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
- Carl Jung
(Related: Health, Difficulties, Man, Needs)
"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Society, National security, Variety)
"My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic."
- Chiang Kai-shek
(Related: Health, Doves)
"Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses."
- Ric Keller
(Related: Health, Education, Care)
"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Fitness, Body)
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Feeling)
"I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families."
- Steve Kerr
(Related: Happiness, Health, People, Opportunity, Goals, Want)
"I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way."
- Jason Kidd
(Related: Chance)
"You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well."
- Margot Kidder
(Related: Body, Cards, First, Mind, Now)
"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
(Related: Health, Boston, Care, Russia, World)
"Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Health, People, Importance, Living, Recreation)
"As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Health, Home, Americans, Force, Future, Generations, Wildlife)
"As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Health, America, Nation, President, Responsibility, State)
"The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't."
- B. B. King
(Related: Health, People, Today)
"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Business, Health, Humor, Care, Climate, Job, May, Today)
"The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer."
- Allen Klein
(Related: Attention, Mind, Problems)
"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Health, People)
"The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000."
- Heidi Klum
(Related: Sports, Eating, Events, Exercise)
"The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them."
- C. Everett Koop
(Related: Health, People, Being, Care, Children, Country, Fact, Play)
"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."
- C. Everett Koop
(Related: Health)
"More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment."
- David Korten
(Related: Change, Health, Food, Life, Quality, Values, Environment)
"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real."
- Jerzy Kosinski
(Related: Health, Father, Now, Sleep, Will)
"It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise."
- Judith Krantz
(Related: Limits, Years)
"If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing."
- Charles Krauthammer
(Related: Health, Care, Public, State)
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Related: Health, Society, Measure)
"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Related: Health, Society, Measure)
"The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding."
- Nicholas D. Kristof
(Related: Health, Hospitals, Population, President)
"Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health."
- Nicholas D. Kristof
(Related: Health, Right)
"In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have."
- Jonathan Krohn
(Related: Idea, Example, Extreme, Healthcare, Now, Party, President, Trying)
"I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law."
- Paul Krugman
(Related: Health, Fun, Law, Reform, Right)
"In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care."
- Dennis Kucinich
(Related: Health, America, Care, Fight, Healthcare, Past, Seriousness, Vote, Will)
"I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer."
- Dennis Kucinich
(Related: Health, Care, Debate, Public, states)
"I believe health care is a civil right."
- Dennis Kucinich
(Related: Health, Care, Right)
"Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance."
- Dennis Kucinich
(Related: Health, Selling, Care)
"Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right."
- Ted Kulongoski
(Related: Being, Debate, Right)
"A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy."
- Ted Kulongoski
(Related: Economy, Environment)
"Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources."
- Jon Kyl
(Related: Health, Control, Care, Commitment, Law)
"I have a healthy view of what one can do with art."
- Neil LaBute
(Related: Art)
"My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy."
- James Lafferty
(Related: New year, Resolution, Will)
"For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married."
- Jhumpa Lahiri
(Related: Health, Problems, Woman)
"Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better."
- Christine Lahti
(Related: Competition)
"I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it."
- Hedy Lamarr
(Related: Health, Love, Money, Worth)
"Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Health, Care, Country)
"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership."
- Ann Landers
(Related: Art, Marriage, Love, Battle, Partnership, Principles)
"The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates."
- Mary Landrieu
(Related: Health, Attention, Care, Country, Effect, Limits)
"As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the federal government has underinvested in it year after year after year, whether it's education or health care."
- Mary Landrieu
(Related: Education, Government, Health, Care)
"Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that."
- Nathan Lane
(Related: Truth)
"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally."
- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Society, Civilization, Development, Community, Facts, Mankind, Respect, Spiritual, Theory, World)
"Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease."
- Peter Latham
(Related: Beauty, Health, Disease)
"Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties."
- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
(Related: Health, Intelligence, Quality, Genius, Balance, Taste)
"Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy."
- William P. Leahy
(Related: Will)
"Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings."
- Kelly LeBrock
(Related: Success)
"If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room."
- David Lehman
(Related: Health)
"I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold."
- Greg LeMond
(Related: Americans, Dying, Gold, Nation, Population, Risk, Years)
"Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons."
- Sugar Ray Leonard
(Related: Health, Will)
"Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Health, Care)
"There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system."
- Matthew Lesko
(Related: Health, America, Care)
"Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?"
- David Letterman
(Related: Health, Day, Man, Running)
"Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation."
- Carl Levin
(Related: Health, Nation, Responsibility)
"Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Education, Financial, Americans, Attention, Healthcare, Retirement)
"We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Men, Money, Women, America, Defense, Manufacturing, Military)
"Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets."
- Judith Light
(Related: Men, Women, People, Fear, Gay, Race)
"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."
- Alphonsus Liguori
(Related: Health, Ability, Destruction)
"I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy."
- Bob Lilly
(Related: Father, Career, Football)
"Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?"
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Health, Care, Committee, Congress, Country, President, Taxes, Will, Wrong)
"Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Change, Government, Health, Medical, Care, Nothing, Will)
"Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future."
- Blanche Lincoln
(Related: Health, Quality, Care, Children, Future, Needs)
"A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access."
- Blanche Lincoln
(Related: Health, America, Care, Fact, Reality)
"I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing."
- O. Winston Link
"We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Health, Care, Decisions, Information, Want)
"By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Environmental, Education, Health, Priorities, Protection, Veterans)
"Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Benefits, Healthcare, Heroes, Nation, Veterans)
"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
- John Locke
(Related: Health, Life, Being, Harm, Liberty, Mankind, Possessions)
"There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned."
- Lindsay Lohan
"It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most."
- Jonah Lomu
(Related: Fitness, Health, Love, Opportunity, Road)
"I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV."
- George Lopez
(Related: Time, Fighting, Relationships)
"Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance."
- Harry Lorayne
(Related: Curiosity, Ignorance)
"Movie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together."
- Courtney Love
(Related: Stars)
"My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy."
- Juliette G. Low
(Related: Soul, Heart, Purpose, Future, Girls, Will)
"Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears."
- Juliette G. Low
(Related: Sister, Animals, Baby, Children, Water)
"I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it."
- Lorna Luft
(Related: Body)
"In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing."
- Frank Luntz
(Related: Being, Emotion, Fact, Passion, Pursuit)
"It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house."
- Ann Macbeth
(Related: People, Hollywood, Production, Will)
"A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness."
- Elaine MacDonald
(Related: Fitness, Health, Life, Coach, Rest)
"Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect."
- Patrick MacGill
(Related: Health, Accident, Attention, Sickness)
"The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question."
- Roger Mahony
(Related: Health, War, Concern, Globalization, Nation, National security, Oil, Question, Terrorism)
"If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer."
- Hermann Maier
(Related: Leading, World)
"I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet."
- Karl Malone
(Related: Time, Old, Sense, Want)
"Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished."
- Og Mandino
(Related: Health, Love, Treasure, Will)
"We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us."
- Barbara Mandrell
(Related: God, Baby, Night, Sound, Thinking)
"I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses."
- Aimee Mann
(Related: People, Play, Songs, Want)
"I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general."
- Herbie Mann
(Related: Health, Men, Awareness, Cancer)
"A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare."
- Thomas E. Mann
(Related: Democrats, Party, Republicans, Unity)
"One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Idea, Illness, Man)
"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
- Thomas Mann
(Related: Idea, Illness, Man)
"You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music."
- Shirley Manson
(Related: Music, People, Play)
"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Family, Work, Education, Knowledge, Effort, Fun, Hard work, Importance)
"I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker."
- Kamisese Mara
(Related: Health, Heart, Crisis, First, Pressure)
"I care about this state... and I feel a responsibility to get things done. If we stay healthy and play smart we can be a playoff team. I think we're on the right track."
- Steve Mariucci
(Related: Care, Play, Responsibility, Right, State)
"Starbucks now spends more on health care than it does on coffee beans."
- Will Marshall
(Related: Health, Care, Coffee, Now)
"But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?"
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Nature, Religion, Fact, State)
"I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy."
- Cliff Martinez
(Related: Being, Country, Drugs, Years)
"I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me."
- Pedro Martinez
(Related: Health, God, Being, Listening)
"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."
- Karl Marx
(Related: Health, Life, Society)
"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."
- Abraham Maslow
(Related: Health, Growth, Baby, Being, Will)
"It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like."
- Jackie Mason
(Related: Question, Sickness)
"And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots."
- Eric Massa
(Related: Health, Leadership, Care, Nothing, Now, Will)
"You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C."
- Eric Massa
(Related: Health, Care, Ladies, Gentlemen, Today, Vote, Washington, World)
"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
- Rollo May
(Related: Commitment, Doubt)
"For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it."
- Debi Mazar
(Related: Death, Life, People, Being)
"The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty."
- Bill McCollum
(Related: Health, Care, Constitution, Legislation, Night, Reform, State)
"The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things."
- Mitch McConnell
(Related: Health, Government, Goals, End, Fact)
"Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support."
- Jim McCrery
(Related: Health, Goals, Care, Congress, Support)
"But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate."
- Jim McDermott
(Related: Death, Government, Health, Americans, Debate, Tax, Hurt, Will)
"I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform."
- Jim McDermott
(Related: Health, Fear, America, Care, Reality, Reform, Struggle)
"My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy."
- Reba McEntire
(Related: Mom, Family, Kids)
"It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else."
- Phil McGraw
"The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country."
- Tim McGraw
(Related: Health, People, Care, Class, Country, Middle class, Poor, Safety)
"That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: People, Question)
"The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Health, Care, Mental health, Problems, Study, Troops)
"One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Health, Americans)
"We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan."
- John M. McHugh
(Related: Health, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mental health, Support, Troops)
"My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Health, Quality, Care, Congress, Economy, First, Nation, Priorities)
"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Land, Living)
"Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: Health, Care, Drugs, Focus)
"Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: Health, American, Care)
"Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful."
- Christopher Meloni
(Related: Work, Health, Hate, Jobs, Sound, World)
"We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Health, Money, Challenge, First, Help, Hospitals, Public, Reality)
"There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Education, Work, Health, Goals, Values, Aspirations)
"I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Health, Business, Boston, Care, Community, Experts)
"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
- Angela Merkel
(Related: Experience, Health, Policy, Opposition, Party)
"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Health, Disease, Today, Tools)
"If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Life, Medical, Care, Today)
"Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front."
- Tom Metzger
(Related: Ideas, Right, United)
"Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people."
- John Mica
(Related: Health, People, American, Care, Congress, Reform)
"I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that."
- Alyssa Milano
(Related: Work, Sex, Day, Energy)
"I think we're in a time when everyone's afraid to have sex. But I was raised being beautiful and healthy."
- Alyssa Milano
(Related: Time, Sex, Being)
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Life, Progress, Order, Party, Reform, Stability, State)
"Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Health, Care, Hospitals)
"In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services."
- Gary Miller
(Related: Health, America, Care, Hospitals)
"After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals."
- David Minge
(Related: Conservation, Consulting, Court, Healthcare, Months, Project, Teaching, Trade)
"The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care."
- George J. Mitchell
(Related: Health, Americans, Care, Result, Today)
"I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my "spaceship" and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again."
- Warren Mitchell
(Related: Life, Society)
"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."
- Ashley Montagu
(Related: Health, Cure, Disease, Public)
"Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man."
- Dwight L. Moody
(Related: Church, Blood, Man)
"When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack."
- Gwen Moore
(Related: Health, Children, Environment, Importance, Public, Ruin)
"When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations."
- Gustave Moreau
(Related: Life, Nature, Women, Emotions, Horror, Want)
"You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out."
- Jeanne Moreau
(Related: Life, Health)
"If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?"
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Education, Health, Work, Career)
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good."
- Daniel P. Moynihan
(Related: Government, Life, Liberals, Skepticism)
"It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself."
- Bill Munson
(Related: Beauty, Health, Time, Care, Now, Will, Years)
"I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry."
- Frank Murkowski
(Related: Environment)
"Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health."
- Arthur Murphy
(Related: Health, Cheerfulness)
"Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room."
- Tim Murphy
(Related: Health, Money, Care)
"However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance."
- Tim Murphy
(Related: Health, Medical, Community)
"Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Family, Life, Quality, Death, Difference, Healthcare, Information, Options, Play)
"Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Health, Hair, Nation, State)
"Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Excellence, Healthcare, Hospitals, Information, Safety, Will)
"I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Quality, Healthcare, Information, Order, President)
"Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Education, Country, Crisis, Drugs, Economy, Healthcare, Open, Potential)
"I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy."
- Chad Michael Murray
(Related: Hurt, Philosophy, Want)
"Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation."
- Patty Murray
(Related: Health, Education, Quality, Americans, Care, Job, Nation, Security, State, Washington)
"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
- Robert Musil
(Related: Difference, Fact)
"Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health."
- Levy Mwanawsa
(Related: Food, Health, People, Justification, Poison)
"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users."
- Ralph Nader
(Related: Health, People, Addiction, Country, Crime)
"I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health."
- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
(Related: Health, Disability, Joy, Scientists, Style, Thinking)
"I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction."
- Dave Navarro
(Related: Health, Destruction)
"For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance."
- Ben Nelson
(Related: Health, Absence, Americans, May)
"The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known."
- Bill Nelson
(Related: Health, Importance, Wishes)
"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."
- Knute Nelson
(Related: Health, Sleep)
"People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well."
- Bebe Neuwirth
(Related: Health, Work, People, Friends, Pretty, Profession, Relationships)
"San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Health, Workers)
"As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Government, Community, Projects, Public, Support, Will)
"Family, nature and health all go together."
- Olivia Newton-John
(Related: Health, Nature, Family)
"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Love, Power, Food, Health, Men, Desire, Entertainment, Necessity, Will)
"Every one says: 'Listen, I'd love to reinvest. I'd love to hire people. But I have no idea what this healthcare bill is going to do to my bottom line. I have no idea what this financial reform bill is going to do... I'm not going to step out a limb and do any of those until I know what this government is going to do to me.'"
- Kristi Noem
(Related: Government, Love, People, Idea, Financial, Healthcare, Reform)
"It is tragic that, under a pro-choice administration and a Democratic majority in Congress, harmful anti-choice policy will be the price American women will pay for health care reform."
- Nancy Northrup
(Related: Health, Women, Policy, American, Care, Congress, Majority, Reform, Will)
"There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it."
- Charlie Norwood
(Related: Health, Money, Idea, Care, Question)
"What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country."
- Charlie Norwood
(Related: Health, People, Care, Country, Fact, Trying)
"Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters."
- Charlie Norwood
(Related: Health, People, American, Americans, Cards, Care, Cause, Letters)
"I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service."
- Melita Norwood
(Related: Education, Food, Health, Money, People, Defeat, Help, Service)
"Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life."
- Paul Nurse
(Related: Health, Life, Quality, Leading, Understanding, World)
"We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Healthcare, Now, Security)
"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Family, Health, Work, Labor, Retirement, Security, Today, Wage)
"But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Health, People, Care, Saying)
"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Health, Progress, Goal, Care, Inflation)
"After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Health, Care, Debate, Land, Law, Promise, Reform, Vote)
"Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Family, Choice, Help)
"And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Marketing)
"Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Time, Women, Health, Care, Eye, Job, Mental health)
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Education, Health, Truth, Care, Order)
"Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Choice, Information, Parents, School)
"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them."
- Michelle Obama
(Related: Quality, Commitment, Culture, Help, Kids, Options, Quantity)
"Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care."
- Dave Obey
(Related: Experience, Family, Health, Care, Disaster, First, Importance)
"I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, Care)
"We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, Care, Talk, Want)
"We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, People, Burnout, Care, Now, Right)
"We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, professionals, Years)
"This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, Care, Country, Jobs, Population, Question, State)
"The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut."
- David Obey
(Related: Education, Health, Money, Tax, Labor)
"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."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, Quality, Advertising, Care, Hospitals, Service, Want, Waste)
"It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, Burden, Care, Customer, Result)
"I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do."
- Sandra Oh
(Related: Women)
"Quit worrying about your health. It will go away."
- Robert Orben
(Related: Health, Will)
"Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get."
- Robert Orben
(Related: Health, Food, People)
"If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult."
- P. J. O'Rourke
(Related: Health, Mind, Will, Words)
"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."
- James Otis
(Related: Health, Life, Sacrifice, Applause, Country, Gentleman, Principles, Public)
"What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control."
- Butch Otter
(Related: Government, Health, Life, Control, Act, Freedom, State)
"Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001."
- Butch Otter
(Related: Act, Congress, Constitution, Healthcare, Legislation, Senate, Understanding, Words)
"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."
- Ovid
(Related: Health, Medicine)
"The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves."
- Camille Paglia
(Related: Congress, Healthcare, Rest, Will)
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
(Related: Health, Mistake, People, Comfort, Culture, Independence)
"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Government, Health, Common sense, Economy, Problems, Will)
"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
- Tom G. Palmer
(Related: Obvious)
"Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster."
- Paracelsus
(Related: Nature, Death, Body, Disease, Fight, Help)
"My main problem has been staying healthy."
- Chan Ho Park
"Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health."
- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
(Related: Health)
"Make health care a right, not a privilege."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: Health, Care, Privilege, Right)
"Health care should be affordable for everyone."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: Health, Care)
"Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: Health, Quality, Care, Nation)
"I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care."
- Ed Pastor
(Related: Health, American, Care, Legislation, Support, Will)
"I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue."
- Mandy Patinkin
(Related: Health, Awareness, Public, Safety)
"I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else."
- Jason Patric
(Related: Time, Projects)
"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Health, Sleep)
"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Health, Causes, Disease)
"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Health, People, Artist, Day, Economy, Job, Order, Writer)
"What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: People, American, Americans, Children, Future, Tax, Healthcare, Jobs)
"Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Education, Health, Technology, Beginning, Care, Classroom, Climate, Creation, Energy, First, Innovation, Job, May, President, Re)
"You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed."
- Mike Pence
(Related: Government, Health, Care, Congress, Economy, Nothing, Taxes)
"I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Health, Life, War, EnglFirst, London, Months, Years)
"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience."
- Bernadette Peters
(Related: Experience, Health, Money, Life, Men, Crisis, Evening, Gay)
"Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?"
- Petrarch
(Related: Health, Desire, Living, Man)
"TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health."
- Tom Petty
(Related: Health, Care, Mental health, News, Now)
"We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."
- Prince Philip
(Related: Health, Canada)
"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Business, Time, Age, Wife, Career, Kids, Parents, Schools)
"Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Home, Life, Kids, Man)
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
- Jean Piaget
(Related: Health, Mother, Attitude, Departure, Mental health, Poor, Reality)
"The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Health, Medical, Quality, American, Care, Therapy)
"Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Abuse, Healthcare)
"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Society, Democracy)
"But our country suffers from a shortage of vets trained in public health."
- Charles W. Pickering
(Related: Health, Country, Public)
"I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy."
- Rick Pitino
(Related: Business, Experience, Being, Now, Will, Years)
"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."
- Plato
(Related: Health, Life, Attention)
"He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Love, Health, Gods, Senses, Sound)
"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
- Plutarch
(Related: Health, Music, Disease, Harmony, Medicine)
"High-quality food is better for your health."
- Michael Pollan
(Related: Food, Health)
"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Choice, First)
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Diet, Health, Anxiety, Disease)
"Health consists with temperance alone."
- Alexander Pope
(Related: Health, Temperance)
"As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth."
- Richard Posner
(Related: People, Fool, Order, Privacy, Want)
"The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny."
- Colin Powell
(Related: Health, Life, Action, Destiny, Energy, Fulfillment)
"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."
- Colin Powell
(Related: People, Competition, Effort)
"You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy."
- Susan Powter
(Related: Love, Clothes, Personality)
"With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails."
- Lisa Marie Presley
(Related: Health, Exercise, Hair, Nothing, Ugly, Yoga)
"Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught."
- Victoria Principal
"I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful."
- Victoria Principal
"Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good."
- Victoria Principal
(Related: Success)
"The proof is in the pudding when they come home. Will we have the data about their health, will we know where they were stationed, what their unit deployments were? I will need that information."
- Anthony Principi
(Related: Health, Home, Information, Proof, Will)
"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
- Pythagoras
(Related: Health, Men, Peace, Animals, Living, Man, Will)
"I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down."
- Ben Quayle
(Related: Health, Medical, Care, President, Reform)
"The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with."
- Anna Quindlen
(Related: Health, Men, Women, American, Public)
"It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it."
- Paula Radcliffe
(Related: Health, Running)
"Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program."
- Franklin Raines
(Related: Health, Children, Kids)
"America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it."
- Jim Ramstad
(Related: Health, America, Care, Veterans)
"It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem."
- Jim Ramstad
(Related: Health, Time, People, Addiction, Congress, Discrimination, End, Public, Treatment)
"American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate."
- Jim Ramstad
(Related: Health, Home, American, Care)
"It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: People, Development, Growth, Countries, Healthcare, Potential, Water)
"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Health, Problems, Yoga)
"Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Food, Health, Conscience, Hell, May, Taste)
"If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family."
- Donna Reed
(Related: Family, Health, Power, Money, Judges, Plants, Risk, Safety)
"At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it."
- Oliver Reed
(Related: Death, Food, People, Right)
"Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination."
- Richard Reeves
(Related: Health, Medical, Father, Examination, Influence, Navy)
"One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage."
- Dave Reichert
(Related: Americans, Children, Healthcare)
"Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state."
- Rick Renzi
(Related: Americans, Care, Faces, Healthcare, Native Americans, State)
"I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards."
- Donna Rice
(Related: Anger, Work, Men, People, Relationships, Scandal)
"The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?"
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
(Related: Health, College, Girls, Question, Reputation, Study, Trouble)
"As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy."
- Bill Richardson
(Related: Health, Care, Day, Economy, Leaders, School, State)
"Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health."
- Samuel Richardson
"I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony."
- Leni Riefenstahl
(Related: Harmony, Living)
"In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Environmental, Health, Country, Culture, Deep, Europe)
"Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it."
- Rihanna
(Related: Time, Body, First, Holidays, Want)
"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people."
- George Lincoln Rockwell
(Related: Government, Nature, People, America, Duty, Environment, Gifts)
"Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top."
- Andy Roddick
(Related: Brothers)
"Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value."
- Anita Roddick
(Related: Education, Health, Values, Years)
"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."
- Fred Rogers
(Related: People, Opportunity)
"Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Work, Awards, Constitution, May, Press, Programming)
"As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases."
- Mike Rogers
(Related: Health, Agriculture, Nation, Service)
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."
- Jim Rohn
(Related: Health, Wealth, Beginning, Learning, Spirituality)
"Healthy people are invalids who don't know it."
- Jules Romains
(Related: People)
"If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a hole in the deficit as we go forward 20, 30 years is government spending on healthcare."
- Christina Romer
(Related: Government, Healthcare, Office, Years)
"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Government, Bureaucracy, Healthcare)
"The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market."
- Mitt Romney
(Related: Government, Healthcare, Office, Post, Right)
"So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Anger, Work, Emotions)
"I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business."
- Diana Ross
(Related: Business, Family, Health, Life, Care, Nothing, Order, Years)
"Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs."
- Mike Rounds
(Related: Health, People, Being, Care, Obesity, Problems, Risk)
"I'm still healthy as can be."
- Darrell Royal
"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
(Related: Change, Circumstance, Regret, Self, Will)
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Music, Disorder)
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
- Bertrand Russell
(Related: Now, Question)
"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."
- Richard Russo
(Related: Health, World)
"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain."
- Meg Ryan
(Related: Marriage, Time, Man)
"We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Government, Health, People, American, Care, Listening, Meetings, Talk, Want)
"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Government, People, Choice, Healthcare, Jobs, Options, Public, Running, Taxes)
"We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Health, America, Care, Sense, Word)
"Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare."
- Paul Ryan
(Related: Healthcare, Reform, Republicans, Want)
"Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Health, Care, Nation)
"The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Health, Americans, Care, Employees, Majority)
"In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care."
- Jim Ryun
(Related: Health, Care, Hospitals, Physicians, states)
"It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought."
- John Salazar
(Related: Health, Home, Care, Heroes, Nation, Needs, Troops)
"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."
- Sallust
(Related: Health, Beginning, Blessings, End, Fortune)
"You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs."
- Bernie Sanders
(Related: Health, Education, People, Care, Jobs, Living, Will)
"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place."
- Margaret Sanger
(Related: Health, Act, Giving, Woman)
"I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide."
- David Satcher
(Related: Health, Country, Future, Mental health, Suicide)
"The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina."
- David Satcher
(Related: Health, Country, Day)
"Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account."
- Anne Wilson Schaef
(Related: Health)
"Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow."
- Anne Wilson Schaef
(Related: Health, Hope, Today, Tomorrow)
"Healthy people live with their world."
- Anne Wilson Schaef
(Related: People, World)
"We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Health, Care, Community)
"In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Health, Care, Community, Public)
"Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Health, Care, Day)
"Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Health, Medical, Care, Community, End)
"As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves."
- Jan Schakowsky
(Related: Health, Work, Care, Community, Crisis, Nation)
"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Health, Brother, Children, Drugs, March, Mental health, Sales)
"Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health."
- Sally Schneider
(Related: Health, Balance, Right, Word)
"I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns."
- Sally Schneider
(Related: Food, Health, Weight)
"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
(Related: Happiness, Health, Sacrifice)
"As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do."
- Gunther Schuller
"Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(Related: Health, Act, Care, Law, President, Reform, states, United)
"And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives."
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(Related: Health, Women, Encouraging, Information, Will)
"We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!"
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(Related: Health, Right, Woman)
"My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?"
- Clara Schumann
(Related: Health, Life, End, May)
"I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Health, Care, Company, Decisions, professionals)
"Voters did say 'repeal health care,' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'"
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Health, Government, Care, Tax, Party, Tea)
"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Health)
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
- Albert Schweitzer
(Related: Happiness, Health, Memory, Nothing)
"Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly."
- Bobby Scott
(Related: Health, Work, Education, Development, Abuse, Job, Mental health, Participation, Prison, Training, Treatment)
"You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them."
- Luke Scott
(Related: Life, Practice, Respect, Years)
"And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people."
- William Scranton
(Related: Health, People, Want)
"We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food."
- Kathleen Sebelius
(Related: Food, Health, Americans, Care, Nation, World)
"I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education."
- Kathleen Sebelius
(Related: Education, Health, Nothing)
"But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care."
- Kathleen Sebelius
(Related: Education, Health, Care, Investment)
"A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening."
- Kathleen Sebelius
(Related: Listening, State)
"General Motors spends more on health care than steel."
- Kathleen Sebelius
(Related: Health, Care)
"People who shop in health food stores never look healthy."
- Amy Sedaris
(Related: Food, Health, People)
"You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship."
- Connie Sellecca
(Related: Children, Support)
"When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh."
- Amartya Sen
(Related: Health, Opportunity, Care, Gender, Obsessions, Old)
"The wish for healing has always been half of health."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Health, Healing)
"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Health, Life, Money, Friend, Being, Benefits, Earth, Freedom, Obligation, Reason)
"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Health, Life, Soul)
"I pray God may preserve your health and life many years."
- Junipero Serra
(Related: Health, Life, God, May, Years)
"Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health."
- Michael Servetus
(Related: Health, Accident, Man)
"The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Health, Quality, Americans, Benefits, Care, Choices, Help, News, Reason)
"Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Health, Bureaucracy, Care, Competition, Economy, Result, Today)
"From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Computers, Health, Quality, Fight, Philosophy, Public)
"I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious."
- Donna Shalala
(Related: Health, Time, People, Healthcare, Right)
"I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health."
- Tony Shalhoub
(Related: Health, Work, People, Career, Mental health, Possessions, Relationships)
"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"
- Al Sharpton
(Related: Health, Care, Right)
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
- William Shatner
(Related: Blood)
"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Health)
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Health, Man, Trouble)
"What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I."
- Christopher Shays
(Related: Health, War, Troops, World, World war)
"I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health."
- Christopher Shays
(Related: Health, Stress)
"I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in."
- Christopher Shays
(Related: Business, Health, Home, Nature, Soldiers)
"Science fiction is very healthy in its form."
- Robert Sheckley
(Related: Science, Fiction)
"You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world."
- Alan Shepard
(Related: Business, Being, World)
"It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet."
- Cybill Shepherd
(Related: Health, Women, First, Freedom, Talk)
"You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that."
- Peter Shilton
(Related: Health, Mental health, Stress, Talking)
"In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis."
- Frank Shorter
(Related: Health, Crisis, Words)
"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"
- Sargent Shriver
(Related: Health, Work, Sacrifice, Dignity, Mental health, Reason, Students, Talk)
"Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity."
- Andrew Shue
(Related: Sports, Opportunity, Winning, Fun)
"It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical."
- Bill Shuster
(Related: Health, Protection, Safety, Workers)
"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."
- Philip Sidney
(Related: Health, Life, Care, Labor, Open, Temperance)
"Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes."
- Ashlee Simpson
(Related: Life, Being)
"While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Health, Americans, Care, Children, Disease, World)
"Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Health, Care, Children, Projects, Support)
"As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Health, Travel, Care, Concern, Drugs, Visit)
"Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Independence, Medicine, Worry)
"We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Health, Action, Care, Drugs, Now)
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
(Related: Health)
"Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'."
- Swami Sivananda
(Related: Body, Disease, Mind, Thinking, Will)
"Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research."
- Ike Skelton
(Related: Medical, People, Investment, Research)
"Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Family, Health, Women, Help, Planning, Public, Want)
"For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Health, Women, Care, Children, Necessity, Want)
"Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Health, Women, Abortion, Children, Pregnancy)
"And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Family, Health, Women, American, Care, Congress, Security)
"We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem."
- Louise Slaughter
(Related: Sports, Girls, School, Self)
"Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy."
- Erika Slezak
(Related: Fame, Fortune, Nothing)
"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
- Samuel Smiles
(Related: Health, Time, Knowledge, Wealth, May, Medicine, Study, Temperance)
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
- Adam Smith
(Related: Happiness, Health, Conscience, Debt, Man)
"It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business."
- Courtney Thorne Smith
(Related: Business, Body)
"You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters."
- Courtney Thorne Smith
(Related: Family, Love, Being, Friends)
"You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies."
- Courtney Thorne Smith
(Related: People, Exercise)
"Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul."
- George A. Smith
(Related: Health, Men, Happiness, Soul, Growth, Contentment)
"It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight."
- Kate Smith
(Related: Health, Obvious, Weight)
"City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure."
- L. Neil Smith
(Related: Health, Measure, Public)
"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."
- Sydney Smith
(Related: Health, Happiness, Conscience)
"On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food."
- Lisa Snowdon
(Related: Food, Light, Water)
"Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances."
- Todd Solondz
(Related: Health, Optimism, Circumstances, Doctors, May, Will, World)
"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."
- Susan Sontag
(Related: Rules)
"A job is a very healthy thing to do."
- David Soul
(Related: Job)
"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."
- Robert Southey
(Related: Health, Peace, Body, Mind, Order, Sanity, Security, State)
"Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year."
- Arlen Spector
(Related: Health, Education, Care, President, Safety, Will)
"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Health, Father, Income, Loss, Spirits)
"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."
- Herbert Spencer
(Related: Health, Morality, Duty)
"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"
- Benjamin Spock
(Related: Cause, Children, Help, Numbers, Parents, Physicians, Trying)
"Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget."
- John Spratt
(Related: Education, Health, Care, Environment)
"When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway."
- Paul Stanley
(Related: Death, Health, Soul, Creativity, Drugs, Nothing)
"Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition."
- Edwin Starr
(Related: Competition, Stars)
"Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Health, Canada, Care, Country, Public, World)
"We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs."
- Michael Steele
(Related: Health, Needs)
"One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman."
- Edith Stein
(Related: Profession, Woman)
"A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living."
- Rudolf Steiner
(Related: Life, Soul, Virtue, Community, Living, Reflection)
"Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them."
- Pamela Stephenson
(Related: Love, Quality, Obsession, Obsessions)
"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."
- Laurence Sterne
(Related: Health, People, Care, Misers, Spirit, Treasure)
"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."
- Laurence Sterne
(Related: Health, People, Care, Misers, Treasure)
"Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Age, Health, Education, Money, Nothing, Profit, State, Talk)
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Health, Miser, Waste)
"I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously."
- Payne Stewart
"The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America."
- Mark Steyn
(Related: Government, Health, People, America, Care, Routine, Waiting, Years)
"The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it."
- Mark Steyn
(Related: Government, Health, Life, Bureaucracy, Care, Nothing)
"We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue."
- Mark Steyn
(Related: Health, Care, Countries, Sound)
"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship."
- Mark Steyn
(Related: Government, Health, Care, Citizenship, Fact, State)
"After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time."
- Henry L. Stimson
(Related: Health, Time, Thought, Doctors, President, Rest)
"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."
- Sting
(Related: Children, Example, Old, Want)
"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
- Tom Stoppard
(Related: Attitude)
"A woman's health is her capital."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Health, Woman)
"It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Health, Manager, Bizarre, Children)
"I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else."
- Picabo Street
(Related: Nothing, Promise)
"I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that."
- Picabo Street
(Related: Home, Life, Dream, Chance, Kids, Living, Want)
"The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical."
- Ted Strickland
(Related: Education, Connection, Economy)
"I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where."
- Ted Strickland
(Related: Health, Life, God, People, Care, Jobs, Security, Talk, Want)
"I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through."
- Ruben Studdard
(Related: Health, Man, Problems)
"We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion."
- Bart Stupak
(Related: Health, Abortion, Care, Language, Public, Voting)
"When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us."
- Bart Stupak
(Related: Business, Health, People, Care, Congress, Country, First, Killing, Now)
"All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care."
- Bart Stupak
(Related: Health, Abortion, Books, Care, Language, Law, Public, Saying, Years)
"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Food)
"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
- Gloria Swanson
(Related: Women, Cosmetics)
"Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?"
- John Sweeney
(Related: Health, Company, Force)
"The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs."
- Thomas Sydenham
(Related: Health, Drugs, Influence)
"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings."
- Publilius Syrus
(Related: Health, Life, Blessings, Sense)
"Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy."
- James Talent
(Related: Diet, Government, People, Children, Help, Information, Responsibility)
"The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind."
- Koichi Tanaka
(Related: Thought, People, Being, Mind, Trouble)
"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit."
- Johannes Tauler
(Related: Health, Time, People, Heart, Day, Grace, Profit, Sickness)
"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."
- William Temple
(Related: Beauty, Health, May)
"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."
- William Temple
(Related: Abstinence, Exercise, Man, Poor)
"That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic."
- Studs Terkel
(Related: Health, People, Action, Hope, Community)
"People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations."
- Studs Terkel
(Related: Health, People, Wealth, Country, Nations, World)
"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."
- Twyla Tharp
(Related: People, Dance, Ballet, Beginning)
"I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are."
- Alan Thicke
(Related: Health, Mental health)
"My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful."
- Alan Thicke
(Related: Fitness, Sports, Health, People, Successful, Being, Fun, Kids, Will)
"I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care."
- Emma Thompson
(Related: Family, Health, Friend, Care, Culture, Friends, Living, Man)
"For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children."
- Fred Thompson
(Related: Health, Children, Example, Houses, May, Old)
"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health."
- James Thomson
(Related: Health, Exercise)
"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Health, Life, Genius, Abundance)
"'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead."
- James Thurber
(Related: Bed, Man)
"They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day."
- Cheryl Tiegs
(Related: Home, Day)
"Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem."
- Charlene Tilton
(Related: God, Purpose, Self, Teenage)
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
(Related: Health, Society, Quality, May)
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
- Leo Tolstoy
(Related: Life, Food, Animals, Appetite, Killing, Man)
"I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do."
- Kiana Tom
(Related: Sports, Goals, Being, Importance, Parents, Play)
"My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones."
- Kiana Tom
(Related: Goals)
"Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!"
- Kiana Tom
(Related: Health, Love, People, Successful, Balance, Care, Career)
"A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things."
- Clyde Tombaugh
(Related: Life, Science, Work, Neglect)
"As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise."
- Bill Toomey
(Related: Diet, Health, Exercise, Tools)
"The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need."
- Nancy Travis
(Related: Health, People, Absence, Care, Cities, Doctors)
"Health food makes me sick."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Food, Health)
"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
- Lionel Trilling
(Related: Health, Idea, Sickness)
"I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare."
- Donald Trump
(Related: Health, People, Care, Country, Friends, Support, Want)
"To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise."
- Gene Tunney
(Related: Health, Exercise)
"Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health."
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
(Related: Health, Luxury, Pain, Pleasure, Rest)
"It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Age, Money, Education, Health, People, Day, Film)
"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."
- Kathleen Turner
(Related: Health, Admiration, Strangers, Support)
"The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy."
- Ted Turner
(Related: People, Control, Media)
"Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health."
- Thomas Tusser
(Related: Health, Hunger, Medicine)
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Health, Books, May, Reading)
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."
- Mark Twain
(Related: Health, Want)
"When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet."
- Liv Tyler
(Related: Diet, Time, First)
"I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods."
- Liv Tyler
"Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not."
- Edward Burnett Tylor
(Related: People, Absence, Children, Statistics)
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
- Lao Tzu
(Related: Health, Friend, Confidence, Contentment, Joy, Possession, Treasure)
"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
- John Updike
(Related: People, Patience, Weight)
"A healthy outside starts from the inside."
- Robert Urich
"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."
- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(Related: Health, Money, Education, Care, Culture, Participation, Poverty)
"The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control."
- Stuart Varney
(Related: Government, Health, Control, Banks, Future, Key, Now, Will)
"We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small."
- Ann Veneman
(Related: Health, Country, Risk, University)
"Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it."
- Ann Veneman
(Related: Health, Animals, Disease, states, United)
"I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply."
- Ann Veneman
(Related: Food, Health, Cause, Concern, Safety)
"But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health."
- Ann Veneman
(Related: Health, Cause, Disease, Fact, Risk)
"I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident."
- Ann Veneman
(Related: Health, Risk)
"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."
- Jules Verne
(Related: Life, Lonely, Man, Sea)
"Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens."
- Thomas Vilsack
(Related: Health, Care, Duty, Job, Now, Responsibility, Safety, Security)
"The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens."
- Thomas Vilsack
(Related: Government, Flexibility, Future, Healthcare, Security, State)
"We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us."
- Joan D. Vinge
(Related: Change, Health, Life, Appearance, Personality)
"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."
- Judith Viorst
(Related: Age, Health, Children, End, Friends, Old)
"The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them."
- Jon Voight
(Related: Health, Work, Truth, Government, American, Care, Want)
"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
- Denis Waitley
(Related: Health, Time)
"As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources."
- Greg Walden
(Related: Health, Fire, Nation, Options)
"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are."
- Alice Walker
(Related: Children, Will)
"You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae."
- Paul Walker
(Related: Love, People)
"And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that."
- James T. Walsh
(Related: Commitment, Drugs, Now, Security, World)