Health Quotes

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
– William Falconer
That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
– Studs Terkel
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?
– David Suzuki
Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
– Felicity Huffman
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
– George Herbert
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
– Alexander Skarsgard
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
– Elizabeth Edwards
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
– Victoria Principal
Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.
– Johannes Tauler
Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.
– Matthew Lesko
Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
– Jeff Bridges
So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.
– Paul Ryan
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
– Paul Farmer
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.
– Frank Dobson
Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
– Karen Mills
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
– Thomas Dekker
Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.
– Jim Ryun
Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.
– Marisa Tomei
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.
– Phil Bredesen
Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
– Ron Wyden
Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.
– Julian Castro
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
– Mike Johanns
San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
– Gavin Newsom
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
– Robert Hall
Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.
– Lois Capps
Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.
– Ron Fournier
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
– Jack Layton
Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.
– Michael K. Simpson
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
– John Cornyn
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
– Nathaniel Branden
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didn't want to change the health care they had they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
– Fred Upton
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
– Julie Bishop
President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.
– Valerie Jarrett
Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.
– Valerie Jarrett
Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.
– Jared Polis
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
– Laurence Sterne
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.
– Tom Daschle
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
– Michael Bloomberg
People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
– Frank Bruno
People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.
– Zoe Kazan
People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
– Calvin Klein
People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
– Bernie Sanders
People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.
– Studs Terkel
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.
– Bebe Neuwirth
Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.
– Clint Eastwood
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
– Malcolm Fraser
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
– John Conyers
Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
– Judy Biggert
Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.
– Fred Upton
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
– Robert Southey
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
– Todd Solondz
One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
– Chris Christie
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
– Mary Antin
One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.
– Alison Sweeney
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
– Andrew Weil
One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
– Valerie Jarrett
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.
– David Miliband
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
– Abdul Kalam
One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.
– John M. McHugh
On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.
– Sidney Blumenthal
Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.
– Fred Upton
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
– Rush Limbaugh
Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.
– Dee Dee Myers
Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.
– Ron Fournier
Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
– Nathan Deal
Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.
– Star Jones
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
– William Falconer
Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
– P. J. O'Rourke
No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.
– Hilda Solis
No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.
– Mehmet Oz
No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.
– Lindsey Graham
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
– Nicholas D. Kristof
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
– Nina Fedoroff
My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy providing for quality, affordable health care and keeping our nation and communities safe.
– Cathy McMorris
My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.
– Kiana Tom
My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.
– Bryan Cranston
My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
– Gabrielle Reece
My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
– Maria Sharapova
My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.
– Maurice Sendak
My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.
– Howard Coble
My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
– Olivia Thirlby
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
– Clara Schumann
My health is fine.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.
– Charles Kennedy
My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.
– Alonzo Mourning
My health is very good.
– Barbara Bush
My health is very much improved.
– Lech Walesa
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
– Warren Christopher
My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.
– Hilda Solis
My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.
– Ellen Pompeo
My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.
– Joel Robuchon
My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
My background is in health care.
– Bobby Jindal
Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.
– Lucille Roybal-Allard
Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.
– Thomas Frank
Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
– Ari Fleischer