Quotes about: health

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
– Davey Havok
I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.
– Dianne Feinstein
I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.
– Sherri Shepherd
I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.
– Elizabeth Hurley
I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.
– Arlen Specter
I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.
– John Cameron
I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
– Daniel Hannan
I am not obsessive about anything except my health.
– Linda Gray
I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
– Andrew Weil
I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.
– Eric Massa
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
– Donna Shalala
I am in very good health. I've never felt better.
– Hugh Hefner
I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.
– Eric Cantor
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
– Steven Hatfill
I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
– Karen Duffy
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
– Nelson Mandela
I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.
– Teri Hatcher
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.
– Laura Hillenbrand
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
– Giacomo Casanova
I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.
– Russ Carnahan
I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.
– Ron Wyden
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
– Paul Krugman
Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.
– David Suzuki
Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.
– Andrew Weil
However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.
– Tim Murphy
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
– Dirk Benedict
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
– Michael Caine
High-quality food is better for your health.
– Michael Pollan
Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships!
– Alison Sweeney
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.
– Eric Ries
Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.
– Max Baucus
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
– James Thomson
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Health is the core of human development.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
– Robert Redford
Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.
– Doug E. Fresh
Health food makes me sick.
– Calvin Trillin
Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
– Malcolm Fraser
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
– Karen Mills
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
– Eliot Spitzer
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
– Tom Allen
Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.
– Benjamin Carson
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
– Robert M. Gates
Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.
– John Shadegg
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.
– Marc Andreessen
Health and education are always issues.
– Helen Clark
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
– Roy Ayers
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
– George A. Smith
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
– Ingrid Bergman
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
– Louise Slaughter
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
– David Boreanaz
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
– Ann Veneman
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
– Thomas Frank
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
– Mark Steyn
Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.
– Ron Fournier
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
– Publilius Syrus
Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.
– Anne Wilson Schaef
Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.
– Fred Upton
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
– George Bernard Shaw
General Motors spends more on health care than steel.
– Kathleen Sebelius
Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.
– Nancy Pelosi
From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
– Angela Merkel
From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.
– John Hutton
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
– Dirk Benedict
From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
– John Shadegg
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
– Jonathan Sacks
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
– Lance Armstrong
For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.
– Valerie Jarrett
For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.
– David Suzuki
For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.
– Michelle Malkin
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
– Nathan Deal
For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.
– Ron Wyden
For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.
– Jhumpa Lahiri
For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.
– Louise Slaughter
For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
– King Abdullah II
For many years I didn't have health insurance.
– Chad Harbach
For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.
– Iain Duncan Smith
For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.
– Fred Thompson
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
– Rush Limbaugh
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
– Ron Wyden
Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.
– Lou Gramm
Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.
– Ron Kind
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.
– Mahalia Jackson
Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
– Theodor Adorno
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
– Dave Obey
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
– Gail Porter
Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.
– Robert Pozen
Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
– Merle Haggard
Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.
– Peter Singer
Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.
– Chris Van Hollen
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.
– Luke Bryan
Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.
– Max Baucus
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
– A. R. Ammons
Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
– Gary Miller
Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
– Ivan Illich
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
– Rowan D. Williams
Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
– Jeff Bridges
Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.
– Timothy Murphy
Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.
– Jan Schakowsky