Flu Quotes - Page 5

• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Skating On Thin Ice, World, Terrorism

  "Modern lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Cancer, Ulcers, Mental Illness

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• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Iraq, People

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

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• Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

  Petra Stunt

  Taken, Worry, Healthy

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• When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

  Rich Lowry

  Mom, Dad, Nice

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• If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Weather, People, Would Be

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• It goes without saying that what a girl goes through, boys could not even comprehend. If we get the flu, we need a week. We're idiots. But what was the most powerful realization to me was, how do single mothers with a low income cope? I can't complain about my dumb life. That's what was most revelatory to me.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Girl, Mother, Powerful

  Source: collider.com

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• There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Animal, Suffering

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• I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Sadness, Firsts

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

  Bernie Sanders

  Doctors, Order, Community

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

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• Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

  Robbie Williams

  Woe Is Me, Life Is, Worst

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• He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

  Anne Lamott

  Tea, Yogurt, Baptists

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.15, Penguin

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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Desire, Skins, Apathy

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• Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.

  Shel Silverstein

  Home, Today, Way

  Shel Silverstein, “Love”

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• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  Sara Gruen

  Real, War, What If

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• You know what I'm thinking?' Maggie said. I had no idea. 'Nope,' David replied. Apparently David didn't know either. Maggie turned to me with pleading eyes.'Our babysitter has the flu.' 'I'm sorry to hear that,' I replied. Dead silence. I honestly had no idea what Maggie was getting at, so I misread the silence. 'It's not serious, I hope,' I said sympathetically.

  Lisa Lutz

  Sorry, Eye, Thinking

  Lisa Lutz (2013). “Trail of the Spellmans: Document #5”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

  Laini Taylor

  Boys, Bird, Looks

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel.

  Paul Washer

  Salvation, Shots, Invitations

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• If you don't sleep you get run down. Sloths never get a flu, cos its good innit thats when your body's replemishing.

  Karl Pilkington

  Running, Sleep, Sloth

  "NME Radio Show", June 9, 2008.

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• Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.

  Ernie Els

  Couple, Golf, Games

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• Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Brother, Fire, Airports

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• I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.

  Georgina Chapman

  Wedding, Bed, India

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• I am so pro-swine flu it's - it's like ridiculous.

  Bill Burr

  Ridiculous, Swine, Swine Flu

  "Bill Burr: Let It Go". TV Special, www.imdb.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

  Toby Jones

  Years, Bob, Tests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  David L. Katz

  War, People, Bird

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