Prions Disease Quotes & Sayings

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. — Craig Ferguson

There is no cure for prions. They are a protein-based disease that, among other things, targets and transforms your brain. The symptoms reveal themselves differently in each host, and you might go months or you might go years before you realize you're infected. — Benjamin Percy

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives. — John Gabriel Stedman

My family was very Halloween-friendly, for all of the religion and whatever was going on. — Bill Moseley

Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up. — Catherine Marshall

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. — Thomas Browne

I probably have never done it right, but I have always loved you, Keelyn Foster. — Jay Crownover

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because — George MacDonald

There are two ways to look at the Planet Earth: (1) It is contracting and shrinking - therefore my chances are scarce. Colloquially put, "there ain't enough to go 'round so I've got to get mine!" (2) It is expanding and growing with opportunity - my chances are based on abundance. The choice is mine, and time is my ally.26 — Caroll Michels

I mean, Charlie and I have never had issues pleasuring each other before, but damn, Charlie getting pregnant equals crazy sex. Wild sex. Sex that makes me feel like I'm being used. Best. Feeling.Ever. — Layne Harper

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. — Alain De Botton

People respond to the stories. They tell them themselves. The stories spread, and as people tell them, the stories change the tellers. — Neil Gaiman

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning. — Hunter S. Thompson

Have you stopped the trial?" the duchess said.
"Stopped the trial!" he expostulated. "My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial."
"They will have to settle for Lady Thornton," the dowager snapped. — Judith McNaught