Home > Topic > communicable
1 " But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing. "
― Jostein Gaarder , The Orange Girl
2 " Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. "
― Terry Pratchett , Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)
3 " When considering grand plans for effective communicable disease control in this time of Ebola peril, malaria continues to kill nearly a million people a year world-wide, and by far the single most reliable protection against malaria is to sleep under a mosquito net, but one of the major impediments to this basic and effective malaria control is that many people, regardless of education level or country of origin, in malaria endemic zones don't install and use one, not that they can't get one, but because they don't think the mosquito net 'looks nice. "
― T.K. Naliaka
4 " My association of jail to high school is probably on the basic similarity of a communicable social-setting. These few settings represent a frame of reference: a somewhat fraternal order (though I never belonged to an actual fraternity) where people collect—and may be confined—and somewhat coalesce on a common cause. Jail was a remarkable and unique experience of fellows/fathers and a force of several…. "
― H. Kirk Rainer , A Father and Future Felon
5 " One key habit I adopted is washing or sanitizing of hands every time, especially after using the toilet, before eating or handling food and whenever I go to visit someone in hospital and after leaving the hospital. Also use proper protective clothing in other circumstances like assisting ailing relatives and friends with communicable diseases. "
― Archibald Marwizi , Making Success Deliberate
6 " Fear is a communicable disease "
7 " There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. "
8 " Misery is a communicable disease. "
― Martha Graham
9 " Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. "
― André Breton , Manifestoes of Surrealism
10 " There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age. "
