Diagnosed With Diabetes Quotes & Sayings

In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold. — Gary Taubes

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you. — David Denby

PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms — Andy Grove

Investing in renter's insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security - not the cause of you losing financial security. — Alexa Von Tobel

He could not close his eyes and just walk by; that was a real monster his traitor mind had created, and it could really tear him apart. — Stephen King

Ah, my dear; and I shall never be happy unless I can open the windows! — Edith Wharton

Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year. — Elijah Cummings

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them. — Michael Specter

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. — Confucius

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time. — Eugene Delacroix

If David had been diagnosed with diabetes at a young age, members of his family, school, and church would have undoubtedly mobilized support. His caregivers would have communicated his need for dietary changes, exercise, and/or insulin. This was not the case when David exhibited the earliest signs of depression. The myth persists that mental illness is a character flaw. It is my hope that one day disorders of the brain will be treated with as much care, compassion, and tenacity as diseases of any other organs in our bodies. — Sheila Hamilton

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. — Anne Bradstreet

Law never made men a whit more just. — Henry David Thoreau

In every language, labels for adulterous women are far worse than those for similarly adventurous men. When a woman is a "a slut," a man is merely a skirt chaser. — Frans De Waal

Recent studies have revealed that children 8-10 years old are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure at an alarming rate. — Lee Haney

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment. — Charlie Kimball

I believe very strongly - and I never brought this up as a player - but I put up, I feel, Hall of Fame numbers with diabetes. If I didn't have diabetes - nobody realizes that, when I was diagnosed at 18, even the doctors didn't know what to do about diabetes. — Ron Santo

Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best. — Tom Seaver

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up. — Ron Santo

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. — George Herbert

She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way. — E.D. Baker

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel — Simon De Pury

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes. — Xavier Becerra

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. — Napoleon Hill

From the moment we are diagnosed with any type of diabetes, we begin a part of our lives in which we are constantly graded. Constantly tested. Constantly told whether we're doing a great job, a good job, an okay job, or a really bad job based on the numbers that show up on our glucose meter and A1C test. We are graded on what we eat or on how often we exercise. Whether we check our blood sugar regularly or rarely, and somewhere in our heads we can't help but tell ourselves that we're "good" or "bad" based entirely on how well we are able to accomplish this neverending to-do list throughout every single day. And that is exhausting. — Ginger Vieira

Every time you use a GPS device, a computer, or a cell phone, you're reaping the benefits of science. In fact, most of us regularly trust our very lives to science: when you have an operation, when you fly in an airplane, when you get your children vaccinated. If you were diagnosed with diabetes, would you go to the doctor or consult a spiritual healer? — Jerry A. Coyne

I grin at her enthusiasm. "Did you like the little gun-finger I flashed you after that goal? All for you, baby."
She grins back. "Sorry to burst your bubble, but you were actually pointing at the old guy a few seats over. He totally freaked out and started shouting to everyone that you scored that goal for him, and then I heard him ask his wife if maybe you knew that he was just diagnosed with diabetes, so I didn't have the heart to tell him who the goal was really for."
I break down in laughter. "Why is nothing ever simple with us?"
"Hey," she protests. "We're more interesting this way."
I can't argue with that. — Elle Kennedy