Aretaeus Cappadocia Quotes & Sayings

I faced the hallway. My feet and my brain discussed the situation very, very briefly, a la:
Feet: He's right there.
Brain: Go get him.
Feet: Rodger that, we're on our way.
Then my feet moved me toward the open door of the office. — Penny Reid

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. — Kurt Vonnegut

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Be kind to the spider. It's simply working hard to be itself. And don't tell the maids, — Julie Anne Long

A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony. — Chubby Checker

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air. — Mae West

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

Tourette's syndrome is seen in every race, every culture, every stratum of society; it can be recognized at a glance once one is attuned to it; and cases of barking and twitching, of grimacing, of strange gesturing, of involuntary cursing and blaspheming, were recorded by Aretaeus of Cappadocia almost two thousand years ago. Yet it was not clinically delineated until 1885, when Georges Gilles de la Tourette, a young French neurologist - a pupil of Charcot's and a friend of Freud's - put together these historical accounts with observations of some of his own patients. The syndrome as he described it was characterized, above all, by convulsive tics, — Oliver Sacks

You do not say, "I love the whole world," but when you know how to love one, you know how to love the whole. Because we do not know how to love one, our love of humanity is fictitious. When you love, there is neither one nor many: there is only love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Future strong is grace, kindness, and gratitude within a pressure cooker. — Bill Jensen

The tears stung my nose as the flames licked Mahyah's body then I froze as my eyes caught on something, lifted to the sky and my breath stuck in my throat as I heard gasps all around, felt the astonished shuffling of bodies and Diandra's hand came to mine and held tight. This was because, as the flames danced high, arching through the sky over the pyre, there was a brilliant, perfect rainbow. — Kristen Ashley

Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia

I thought I'd had wild monkey sex.
I didn't know the meaning of it until Shy taught it to me. — Kristen Ashley

When he can render no further aid, the physician alone can mourn as a man with his incurable patient. This is the physician's sad lot. — Aretaeus Of Cappadocia