Cancer Quotes - Page 20

• I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

  Greg Proops

  Smoking, Inappropriate, Certain

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• A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I said, 'All right, but we won't get much done.'

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Done

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sports, Sarcastic, Food

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• Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Wake Up, Stakes, Frail

  "Joni Eareckson Tada, Husband: Cancer 'Bruising of a Blessing' On Our Marriage". Interview with Stephanie Samuel, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

  Andrew Lo

  Mother, Years, Lasts

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• My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

  Paul Henderson

  Philosophy, Use, Ruins

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• We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Mistake, Believe

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• A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Colonialism

  George Bernard Shaw (1994). “John Bull's Other Island”, p.41, Penguin UK

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• My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Hurt, Laughter, Fun

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• I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

  Ishmael Reed

  Education, Hurt, Reading

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

  William Saroyan

  Believe, Cutting, Successful

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

  Fran Drescher

  Sometimes, Whole Life, Best Gift

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• When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Ana Castillo

  Suicide, Political, Mind

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cycling, Messages

  Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

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• On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.

  Molly Ivins

  Get Well, Needs, Cards

  "Ann Richards and Molly Ivins Ain’t Done with Us Yet!" by Linda Milazzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 04, 2007.

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• First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).

  Paul Samuelson

  Common Sense, Effort, Investing

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• ... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Jobs, Drinking, Blow

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Opportunity, Survival, Looks

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• When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

  Edward Brooke

  Government, People, Political

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• No cancer is going to tell me when my time is up.

  Darlene Zschech

  My Time

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• We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience and progress, we can decide that cancer is inconvenient and toxic pollution archaic and primitive. We can start seeing the creation of carcinogens as the result of outmoded technologies. We can demand green engineering and green chemistry. We can let our systems of industry and agriculture know that they are suffering from a design flaw.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Technology, Thinking, Engineering

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• Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!

  Rod Stewart

  Survival, Facts, Form

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• Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size). One half of all the world's cancers occur in people living in industrialized countries, even though we are only one-fifth of the world's population. Closely tracking industrialization are breast cancer rates, which are highest in North America and northern Europe, intermediate in southern Europe and Latin America, and lowest in Asia and Africa.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Country, Latin, America

  "Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment". Book by Sandra Steingraber, 1997.

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• The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Piano, Keys, Command And Control

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.19, Da Capo Press

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• That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

  Shelley Hamlin

  Perspective, Survival, Better Life

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