Health - Quotes & Sayings
I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.
Andre RieuMr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.
Luis GutierrezMany of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers.
Kathi AppeltUsing lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
Sally SchneiderI feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.
Jim JamesWe believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
Rick PerryThe importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.
Monica PotterPublic health and safety are my highest priorities.
Kate BrownAs it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Susan FaludiI don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.
Cobie SmuldersWomen oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs.
Cathy McMorris RodgersMental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?
Tom SturridgeHealthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've developed personal health programs designed around patients to catalyze sustainable behavioural change.
Frans van HoutenIf you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.
Ron WydenHealth care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
Dan PinkI think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
Abraham VergheseGlobal health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.
Kathleen SebeliusI think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
Wagner MouraMove over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
Jennifer ArmintroutExperience 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 ObeySteroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.
Howard BermanDad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments.
Amy HoggartOur government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
Allen BoydSince becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.
Ali LiebegottI am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health.
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of TurvilleRedemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the Christian tradition but not often preached - is that you can't enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.
Thomas KeatingAmerica's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.
Mike FergusonThere is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.
Rogier van der HeideWe need to make sure that people get good adequate health care that's not necessarily tied to their insurance, that's not mandated, that's not taxed.
Ron EstesWe will continue to do all we can to protect the public health against these dietary supplements that have been found to cause serious illness and injury.
Andrew von EschenbachWe need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
Luke RichardsonYou see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.
Mike DitkaIn order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
Jack WelchI work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.
Ann RichardsIt is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
Patch AdamsThe Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it.
Bernie SandersYou go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.
Bernie SandersIf the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
Bernie SandersPeople don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
Bernie SandersProgressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
Bernie SandersIt has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.
Bernie SandersAt the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.
Bernie SandersHillary Clinton wants to see that all Americans have the right to choose a public option in their health care exchange.
Bernie SandersI have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care.
Bernie SandersI have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.
Malcolm GladwellHealth is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
W. H. AudenExuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.
Theodor AdornoAfter my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.
Yoko OnoI was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
Yoko OnoNobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.
P. J. O'Rourke