To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.
~ Dale Murphy
When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
~ Regina Brett
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
~ James Randi
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.
~ Geoffrey Canada
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
~ B. C. Forbes
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
~ Joseph P. Kennedy
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
~ Petrarch
Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
~ Pierce Brosnan
The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
~ S. Jay Olshansky
Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.
~ Susanne Bier
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
~ Marjane Satrapi
I remember Simon O'Donnell being struck with cancer during Australia's 1987 World Cup campaign. I know very well what it is like to have a teammate who has been struck with a potentially fatal disease. He fought through: managed to get himself back to 100% fitness and back to playing again.
~ Tom Moody
When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
~ Terry Pratchett
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.
~ Steven Weber
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
~ Abraham Verghese
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
~ Seann William Scott
