#stroke

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#believe #dead #death #fears #i

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important! ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#going #i #important #listen #must

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. ↗

— Anthony Edwards

#attendant #back #doctor #flight #flying

It is important for Americans to recognize that, despite all of the fancy gimmicks and perceived power of modern medicine, the largest explosion of preventable, chronic diseases ever in the history of mankind has occurred as a direct result of modern medicine and scientific reductionism. Modern medicine is not an antidote for the incredible harms caused by the modern food industry, but it is an effective distraction. ↗

— Charles C. Harpe

#diabetes #healthcare-reform-in-the-us #heart-disease #manufactured-food #metabolic-syndrome

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

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

— Daryl Hall

#causes #chronic #death #even #heart

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. ↗

— Peter Hammill

#apparently #art #art lies #big #big picture

Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new. ↗

— Donald Judd

#am #brush #done #expression #i

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing. ↗

— Andreas Katsulas

#get #included #just #next #next thing

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke. ↗

— Bill Tilden

#his #modern #player #stroke #strong