I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, ‘He does all these crazy things.’ But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, ‘Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen – impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.’
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
There’s nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment.
I’m so gullible. I’m so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
It’s my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.
So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick – but at least I’d had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
If I think I’m going to get into trouble I always say that I’m sick.
When my father died, I was 21, and he’d been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
I like performing, but I usually get really sick when I’m on tour, and it’s just hard.
Health care is a need; it’s not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you’re very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you’re not sick, you shouldn’t have a lot of it.
There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
The reason I don’t tweet as much as I used to, is because I’m sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
I’m sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I’m bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted a real man that I could believe was my brother, my father, you know, my next-door neighbor – a real person.
There are pastors who won’t go to people’s sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?
There’s a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who’re used to fresh food feel sick.
When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: ‘Oh my God…’ You know if it’s not great because you start to feel sick.
Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I’m dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.
I’m the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
I thought it was terrible. I don’t know who to believe. Williams was very loyal and honest. Nobody could ever say different. Sometimes, that got him into a lot of trouble. But after he died and they cut his head off, that made me sick.
I’m not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don’t care what anyone says.
Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ to comfort me.
Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.
I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
To me, ‘X Factor’ is like Vegas. Fake, twisted, but kind of wonderful. Maybe I’m sick, but I find the whole thing quite funny sometimes.
When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
I just like food too much, and I don’t want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it… I don’t want to look like Britney Spears, I just don’t want to. She’s hideous.
It’s funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.
I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
When I’m sick, all I want to do is curl up in a ball and sleep for days!
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.
When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
I’m so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
This is a sick business. It’s so sad.
My culture comes from everywhere. I’m sick of this notion of nationality, that if you’re brought up in the same city or same country you’re the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.
My mother died, and I couldn’t stand to look at her bedroom any more. I’d get sick. I’ve always been a momma’s boy.
My mother used to ask me to stay home from school and keep her company. I’d fake I was sick, and she’d fake believing me.
I don’t get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.
I’ll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.
I’m sick of people sittin’ in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape… then we have our experts on the topic… I’m in the ‘What’s next?’ phase of my career.
You wouldn’t know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.
Even if it’s a song I know isn’t gonna do that well, I’m dropping it as a piece of art, so I always want sick visuals to go with it.
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
Snakes are sick.
I don’t take vacations. I don’t get sick. I don’t observe major holidays. I’m a jackhammer.
If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don’t think that’s a very ethical way of limiting the population.
The United States is one of the few nations on the planet where paid family and medical leave or earned sick time is not the law of the land.
A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.
Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.
I don’t think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don’t think that’s love – that’s infatuation.
I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.
It’s a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of ‘Chopped.’ You’d think I’d get sick of it, but it’s a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don’t like about it is it’s a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.
The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film’s over, I’ll do something like shave my head.
Film lovers are sick people.
Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me… and were just like, ‘You know what? We’re sick of this. Let’s kill her.’