(11 quotes found)
“Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges”
Sir Walter Scott
“We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.”
Billy Graham
“[If there's an early season,] we're likely to have in spot parts of the country increased morbidity and mortality, and that's what we're all fretting about, ... But it's relatively reassuring that it wasn't a bad October for the flu. If there were lots of influenza around lots of parts of the country in October, we'd be much, much more worried.”
William Schaffner
“I've never been as happy as I am here. It sounds strange and kind of morbid to say it, but I really love this place.”
Jill Carroll
“They were like, 'That may be better than having it show up as some kind of morbid trophy on the Internet,' ... You've got to think of the victims. That would be bad for them.”
Jim Cavanaugh
“One year older, one year shorter; celebrate while you still can, and make sure to live life to the fullest until the end.”
Astraea L. Skylar
“To me its kind of morbid to kind of wait for the landowners to pass away just to go and steal the land again.”
Michael Cristofaro
“Some of them are morbidly obese and they can't get a cuff on their arm. Typically, in those situations, their wrists aren't as fleshy as the arm would be.”
Kevin Evans
“In the camps, the malnutrition rates and morbidity increased instantly. Our colleagues from UNHCR [UN High Commissioner for Refugees], they also noticed that sexually-transmitted diseases increased too, like AIDS as some refugees had to turn to prostitution in exchange for food, which is very unfortunate. We also see that there was dropping out rates, increasing dropping out rates in schools, as parents do not send their kids to school anymore because they need them to work, to do dirty labor, and to get some money to buy food.”
Simon Pluess
