Sick Quotes

"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man"

Herbert Hoover, President

"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate"

Jessamyn West, Author

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign"

George W. Bush, President

"There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"There are some sick people in this world"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"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, Prophet

"I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"Politics makes me sick"

William Howard Taft, President

"So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job"

Robert Quine, Musician

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Health food makes me sick"

Calvin Trillin, Journalist

"My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"'What do you really think happens after you die?' That's the question that everyone, everyone, everyone asks. And I'm so sick of it. But my true answer is, I don't know. And there's no way I'm going to find out 'til it happens"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

"When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings"

Kate O'Brien, Novelist

"We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God"

Ernestine L. Rose

"I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

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