Being Diabetic Quotes & Sayings

I take a nap. ... It doesn't help much, but then it doesn't do any harm. — Pamela J. Ball

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one! — George Eliot

I was right, I knew I was, but it won't do me any good to say it. I enjoy my victory silently; I take pleasure in it almost as much as in his touch. — Paula Hawkins

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. — Dean Koontz

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic. — Carrie Fisher

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it. — Michael Cunningham

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle. — Nell Carter

When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being ... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon
because it all happens right here, where it's safe. — Janette Oke

I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt — Nix Banner

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. — Sue Townsend

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it. — Gordon Bethune

You eat as many vegetables as you can, and try to cut your carbs and your sugar. That's going to make the job of being a diabetic so much easier. — Jay Cutler

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be. — Annette O'Toole

Our work is not to become unique. We are unique. Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure and to allow the inner whisper that says "come hither" to be reason enough to go. — Vironika Tugaleva

Habit is ten times nature. — Arthur Wellesley

When Paul drank more than a diabetic should or we argued about petty domestic things, I would employ a kind of preemptive nostalgia, filing the episodes away under the heading A Couple's Early Years. This general retrospective of the present leaped ahead to forgive our moments of anger and doubt, and the occasional day when the frustration and recriminations between us became grinding. It helped alleviate my sense of having been duped into believing Paul would be the person to deliver me from my family, rather than imitate it. And really it was okay, and most often better than that, being the object of his desire, sensing he would never leave me. That we were safe. — Adam Haslett

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. — Ambrose Bierce

Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi. — Jemaine Clement

No matter how much you tried to make something happen, you will not be able to until the time is right. — Preeti Shenoy