Tumors Quotes - Page 3

• It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.

  Epictetus

  Mind, Events, Viewpoints

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• When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.

  Lissa Rankin

  Fall, Falling Apart, Grows

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• I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

  Eric Davis

  Baseball, Lucky, Four

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

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• ...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

  Sherman Alexie

  Cancer, Heart, Dying

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

  Christopher Moore

  Rose, Needs, Rooms

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• See what? I didn’t see anything. There were no scary people there. Nothing freaky. I’m going home now and tomorrow I’m going to have the doctors check for a brain tumor. Full battery of tests. Whole nine yard. Whatever’s wrong with me, we’ll find it and deal with it. At this point, my vote is either tumor or space alien testing. Either one works for me. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Doctors, Space

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.

  Barry Lyga

  Cancer, Giving, Reactions

  Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.

  Max Brooks

  Rain, Reality, Years

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Ocean, People, Earth

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• It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.

  Sharon Creech

  Fear, War, People

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• How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.

  Dorianne Laux

  Night, Blue, Doors

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• I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Blessed, Jealous

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• You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.

  O.R. Melling

  Brain, Brain Tumor

  O.R. Melling (2012). “The Chronicles of Faerie (Book 2): The Summer King”, Amulet Books

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• It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

  J. D. Salinger

  Brain, Littles, Tiny

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Tree, Looks

  "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.

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• To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Cities, Looks

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I beat a brain tumor.

  Arlen Specter

  Brain, Beats, Brain Tumor

  Sen. Arlen Specter (2010). “Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, People, Alcohol

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• Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Feelings, Poison

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• [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mindfulness, Sentimental, Belief

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• I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Doors, Names

  Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

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• The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Grows, Written

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1960). “Invitation to a beheading: a novel”, Putnam Adult

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• The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'

  William Doyle

  Fields, Healthcare, Patient

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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

  James Lovelock

  Eugenics, Cells, Earth

  "Healing Gaia: practical medicine for the planet". Book by James Lovelock, 1991.

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