Sick Quotes

"No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish"

"A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick"

"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

"And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow"

Peter Tosh, Musician

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

Ben Jonson, Poet

"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out"

Christian Bale, Actor

"I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you"

Steven Adler, Musician

"Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun"

Flip Wilson, Comedian

"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

"I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick"

Abe Lemons, Coach

"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

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

George W. Bush, President

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

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"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

"There are some sick people in this world"

Phil McGraw, Psychologist

"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

"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

"Politics makes me sick"

William Howard Taft, President

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"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

"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

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

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"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

"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"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

"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"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

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

Knute Rockne, Coach

"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 only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver"

Slash, Musician

"They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life"

Black Elk, Leader

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