Quotes and Sayings about Viruses

An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

Now, more than any time in our history, we will be judged by our capacity for compassion. Our ability to come through this, won't just be down to what government or businesses do, but by the individual acts of kindness that we show each other.

Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.

Last year, Covid-19 kept us apart. This year, we are finally together again.

This pandemic is exhausting all of us. We're tired of it. But it doesn't help. We have to face it together and, in many cases, practice social distancing.

Most likely, by the end of this winter, everyone in Germany will be either vaccinated, recovered, or dead.

There will not be another lockdown.

I recommend taking the vaccines. I happen to take the vaccine - if it doesn't work you'll be the first to know.

We all want normality back, but we don't get normality back by ourselves - we only get it as a community and that's why we need to get more people vaccinated. Every vaccination is a small step towards normality for everyone.

If we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks when we will be helped by the arrival of summer and the school holidays, we must ask ourselves "when will we be able to reopen?"

After I promised 200 million Covid-19 shots in the first 100 days, we will have provided over 220 million Covid shots in those hundred days. Thanks to the help of all of you.

We have to act now. Now. In all areas.

And on Monday the 12th I will be going to the pub myself - and cautiously but irreversibly raising a pint of beer to my lips.

We can't keep up this strict lockdown for all of winter. Our society couldn't stand that.

Normally developing a vaccine takes up to 10 years. We developed a vaccine in just nine months. We've already begun a nationwide vaccination program, and we’re sending the vaccine all over the world. The world will benefit will benefit, and everybody’s calling to thank me.

In 2021, we will continue our fight against Covid-19 with a renewed sense of hope. Canadians have already started to receive doses of safe and effective vaccines.

The first few months of the year will be difficult until at least the spring. Hope is there in this vaccine that human ingenuity has brought about in just one year.

The painful events that humanity had to suffer through during the past year, especially the pandemic, show how important it is for us to care for others and to be compassionate.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea! Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

Already I can see the chain reaction. The chemical precursors that signal the onset of an emotion designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.