Quotes about Health

“Social media is both a dark and brilliant thing for mental health.”

“We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.”

“Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.”

“A more holistic view encompassing mental, emotional, financial, social and spiritual wellness is as important as physical health, is now defined, understood, and aspirational.”

“Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.”

“A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.”

“We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.”

“It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits.”

“True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.”

“Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.”

“The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses.”

“The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.”

“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”

“The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.”

“The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.”

“Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.”

“The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.”

“We must urge a national dialogue on better methods of curbing preventable gun violence, and address the need for mental health awareness and access to psychiatric services in this country.”

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

“By training and keeping doctors in underserved areas, we're working toward a goal of increasing access to quality health care for more of our communities.”

“In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.”