Cancer Quotes - Page 36

• When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."

  Denis Leary

  World, Cures, Wanted

  "Denis Leary on 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' comedy, and life after 'Rescue Me'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.ifc.com. July 31, 2012.

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• People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

  Laura Linney

  Views, People

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• I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

  Bette Midler

  Art, Light, Hopeful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mother, Doors, Looks

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• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  Danica Patrick

  Red Flags, People, Goal

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• Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

  Gilda Radner

  Clubs, Membership, Elites

  "Psycho-Oncology". Book by Fred Goodwin (p. 2), 2000.

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• I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

  Ann Romney

  Winter, Boys, Long

  Ann Romney (2015). “In This Together: My Story”, p.161, Macmillan

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• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Believe, Light

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

  Paul Simon

  Hope, Heart, Brain

  Song: Train in the Distance

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• I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

  Arlen Specter

  Winning, Battle

  "Ex-Sen. Specter plans to win fight against cancer", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dream, Light, Long

  "Patrick Swayze on Cancer: 'I'm Going Through Hell'" By Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, abcnews.go.com. January 6, 2009.

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• Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

  Voltaire

  Faith, Spiritual, Believe

  'Questions sur l'Encyclopèdie'

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• At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, Thinking, Salvation

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.

  Stephen King

  Memories, War, Echoes

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• You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

  Haruki Murakami

  Whole Life, Persons, Whole

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• It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy. The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when 'reasoning' human beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes right back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to look healthier, make themselves sick. Good!

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Media, Law

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Depression, Sadness, Depressed Person

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

  John Green

  War, Ends, Cures

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.37, Penguin

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• You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

  William Saroyan

  Smoking, May, Want

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• The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.

  Justin Halpern

  Baby, Relax, Cures

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.134, Pan Macmillan

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• Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Soul, Secret

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.395, Simon and Schuster

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• Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

  John Green

  Death, Honor, Dying

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

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• She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Eye, Dark

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

  Pablo Neruda

  Wall, Air, House

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• The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Blessing, Suffering

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