Treatment Quotes - Page 4

• A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Tyrants, Genius, Taste

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2005). “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan

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• You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Licking, Plant

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.169, Penguin

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• The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hands, Use, Force

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• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  Salman Rushdie

  Long, Special, Cost

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• People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Israel, Media

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• Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Inspirational, Patient, Disability

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• Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

  Franz Schubert

  Flames, Ideas, Inspire

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• In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Get Well, Lying

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• Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

  William Scranton

  Ideas, People, Would Be

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• If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Animal, Protection

  "Religion's regressive hold on animal rights issues" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2010.

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• We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

  Louise Slaughter

  Responsibility, Cells, Research

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• Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

  Susan Sontag

  Women, Important, Disease

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Leadership, Iran, Korea

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• Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision I have continued to use both medications.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Doctors, Years, Growth Hormones

  "Sylvester Stallone Pleads Guilty to Bringing Human Growth Hormone Into Australia". www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2007.

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• When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.

  Tony Stewart

  Home, Matter, Way

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• By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.

  James Surowiecki

  Superhero, Kind, Scrutiny

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• Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

  Thomas Szasz

  Love, Successful, Conceited

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• Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

  Marlo Thomas

  Taken, Cost, Care

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• I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

  Gene Tierney

  Home, Agriculture, Medication

  "Self-Portrait".

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• So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

  Polly Toynbee

  Jobs, Giving Up, Jail

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

  Eddie Vedder

  Religious, Growing Up, Animal

  "Pearl Jam: 'People get that this means something'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2009.

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• To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Ocean, Eye, Hands

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• Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.

  Andrew Weil

  Government, Physicians, Pay

  "The Question No One Asks About Healthcare" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2009.

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• I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Dresses, Bags, Care

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• Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Book, Doctors

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