Top 426 Chronic Quotes & Sayings

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.

Chronic disease is a food borne illness.

The quality of health care in Germany is not as good as people sometimes believe it to be. We have problems with chronic diseases. The German system allows too many hospitals and specialists to treat chronic diseases. We do not have enough volume in many institutions to deliver good quality, and we do have fairly strict separations ... between primary physicians, office specialists and hospital specialists. But I think the quality problems can be solved in the next couple of years, and we have made major progress in diabetes, coronary artery disease and pulmonary disease care.

That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

There are more repercussions for a person being a chronic speeding violator in our country, than there is for a big bank being a chronic violator of S.E.C. rules!

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

Embrace beautiful lies - the chronic insanity of the sane

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists' fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of that virus and allowed the generation of therapies like antiretroviral therapies. And so now HIV/AIDS is not a lethal disease, it is a chronic disease.

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness: with skill, with compassion and with urgency.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice.

In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So any kind of pain and difficulty is so much unwelcome that if you say that you're in pain, we're going to even pay you full salary to quit work because you're burned out, inside that what you're going to create is gigantic amounts of chronic pain syndrome. Scandinavians spend 15 percent of their gross national product on disability. 50 percent of the public health nurses are on disability. And that's where we're headed in the U.S. too.

I'm Dave Chappelle and I'm a chronic masturbator.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Chronic emotional stress shortens your telomeres.

I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

My dad is not an alcoholic but has a chronic liver disorder along with heavy diabetes.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.

I am a physician specializing in nutritional interventions for chronic disease and a strong advocate of superior nutrition as the first line of attack to prevent and treat most chronic diseases.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

I did record 'The Chronic' in 1992. The year was not a total loss.

There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

It's very expensive to treat chronic diseases.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

I have chronic - well, I like to call it late-stage Lyme disease and not chronic, because I like to think someday I'll be all the way cured. It took me a really long time to get diagnosed, and I was misdiagnosed for a long, long time. I was very ill during the end of Le Tigre, which was kind of why that ended, amongst other things.

If success is my drug then I've been on a chronic overdose all my life.

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.