Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?
"My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured. " She paused. "Though he did die. "
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.
The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.
The Public provides freedom. . . Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.
Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid.
To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.
Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
Wounds cannot be cured without searching.
Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.
Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.
The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material. . . The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them. . Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.