Quotes about: health

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.
– John Bruton
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 serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
– Lois Capps
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 priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
– Alan Thicke
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 health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.
– Steven Adler
My health and my family are the core of my being.
– Jon Bon Jovi
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 Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.
– Harry Connick, Jr.
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 background is in health care.
– Bobby Jindal
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
– Paul Cezanne
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
Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.
– Eric Alterman
Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
– Spencer Bachus
Most Americans want health insurance.
– Jacob Lew
Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.
– Andrew Weil
Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.
– Tim Murphy
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
– Samuel Wilson
More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.
– Kathleen Sebelius
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
– David Korten
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
– Bjorn Lomborg
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
– Adam Ant
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
– Diane Abbott
Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.
– William Falconer
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
– Jeff Goodell
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.
– Eric Liu
Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.
– Timothy Griffin
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
– Jesse Jackson
Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.
– Carl Jung
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
– Michael Servetus
Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.
– Kendrick Meek
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
– Thomas Tusser
Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.
– John Boehner
Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
– Bryan Cranston
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
– Samuel Smiles
Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.
– Kendrick Meek
Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.
– Anne Wilson Schaef
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
Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.
– Christopher Meloni
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
– Barbara Boxer
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
– William Hazlitt
Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
– Candace Bushnell
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
– Henry St. John
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
– Thomas Frank
Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.
– Mitch Daniels
Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
– Thomas Jefferson
Lack of time is a real health killer.
– Marilu Henner
Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.
– Richard Reeves
Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.
– Jerry Costello
Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
– Paul Wolfowitz
It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.
– Paula Radcliffe
It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.
– Michel Martelly
It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.
– Phil Bredesen
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.
– Jennie Garth
It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.
– Frank Carson
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
– Martha Plimpton
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
– Bryan Cranston
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.
– Martha Plimpton
It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.
– Ron Wyden
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
– Meryl Streep
It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.
– Pierre Dukan
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
– Jonah Lomu
It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
– Nigel Farage
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
– Marian Wright Edelman
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
– Barack Obama
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
– Bernadette Peters