Isolation For Tuberculosis Quotes & Sayings

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives. — Helen Garner

The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things. — John Of The Cross

There is a time to react and a time to accept — Steven Redhead

America today is a "save yourself" society if there ever was one. But does it really work? The underdeveloped societies suffer from one set of diseases: tuberculosis, malnutrition, pneumonia, parasites, typhoid, cholera, typhus, etc. Affluent America has virtually invented a whole new set of diseases: obesity, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, strokes, lung cancer, venereal disease, cirrhosis of the liver, drug addiction, alcoholism, divorce, battered children, suicide, murder. Take your choice. Labor-saving machines have turned out to be body-killing devices. Our affluence has allowed both mobility and isolation of the nuclear family, and as a result, our divorce courts, our prisons and our mental institutions are flooded. In saving ourselves we have nearly lost ourselves. — John Piper

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me. — Susanna Clarke

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert ... — Michael Herr

What are we going to do?" I said.

"I guess we're going to sit here and wait for this night to end. Every night has to end eventually. — Kate Scelsa

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them. — Mario Puzo

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33 ... Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics. — Michio Kaku

But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology. — Ernest Cline

America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. — P. J. O'Rourke