Chronic Quotes

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There`s an uncanny thing that chemically happens to you when you`re in the chronic stages of alcoholic drinking. I have been able, on occasions, to have two bottles of vodka and still be up talking to people. That got very frightening. By nature I`m an isolationalist, so my boozing was at home, thank you. I was not a goer-outer. I mean, I didn`t drink for the taste and I didn`t want to be social. Someone once described alcoholics as egomaniacs with low self-esteem. Perfect definition.

- Gary Oldman

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it`s only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

- Elizabeth Hurley

I`ve been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

- Loni Anderson

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

- Loni Anderson

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

- Gene Tierney

The manufacture of desire isn`t at the heart - if it isn`t absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

- Todd Gitlin

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

- James Carville

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that causes inflammation in the airways. As these tissues swell, they limit the volume of air that can pass into the lungs.

- Robert Nathan

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

- Julie Bishop

I`ve always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

- Lusia Strus

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

We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you`re more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you`re more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively,

- Karen Davis

Let`s face it, in America today we don`t have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

- Tom Harkin

My top most priority is to deal with India`s massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

- Manmohan Singh

The financial incentive makes it possible for physicians to invest in themselves and in their practices so that they can deliver even better care to their patients. We want to encourage these types of efforts by physicians to improve the care processes for patients with chronic diseases----leading to better clinical outcomes and, ultimately, lower costs.

- John Little

We need to invest in prevention because it`s better for the quality of life of people if they live longer without a chronic or disabling disease, ... and it`s better for us as a nation because we`re not putting so many resources in treatment of chronic diseases.

- Elizabeth Ward

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

This is a terrific opportunity for people in Northam to get some practical help to manage daily living with chronic disease

- Christina Johnson

This is a virus that has never been seen in humans before. This is consistent with previous epidemiologic and genetic research that has suggested that prostate cancer may result from chronic inflammation, perhaps as a response to infection.

- Eric Klein

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

- Abby Smith

We don`t have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson`s and Alzheimer`s diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

- Alexis Gordon

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

- Alton Greene

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight or obese, they have more health problems and more serious health problems, in addition to higher health care costs.

- Amber Chia

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

- Amber Hawkins

This is analogous to what is colloquially known as being punch drunk, ... We believe the microscopic changes in the brain are consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy or a degeneration over time that set the stage for the final result. The meningitis was not bacterial or viral or the kind you see in college dorms or army barracks.

- Anthony Gary

This is a chronic problem that daily impacts all New Yorkers, especially communities of color. It disproportionately impacts the African American and Latino communities.

- Antoine Massad

People with chronic disease often want more information about their illness and the various treatment options available.

- Antonio Alonso

Through a program with Community Support services, they place around 50 homeless into apartments every year. Shesler Hall houses about 40 per year and Henry Hall just opened. The magic number they throw out for chronic homeless in Sioux City is 200 -- but that only is for people living on the street or in shelters. That doesn`t count people doubling up.

- Arthur Sulzberger Jr

It`s not just families; they`ll be people with chronic mental health, truly the neediest people,

- Ashley Robison

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

- Atsushi Nakajima

We still have several thousand children a day who start smoking every single day in this country and half of them will go on to be chronic smokers.

- Aydin Tuncer

This devastating hurricane creates special hardships for those with disabilities and chronic diseases,

- Bafil Newmerzhycky

This is a campaign that is really designed to make prevention first rather than waiting until people get sick and have symptoms and chronic disease.

- Barbara Hartman

My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.

- Dennis Prager