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Contracted Quotes

Sayings on illness, contracts, and unexpected turns.

Contracted takes two very different meanings in these quotes, from catching malaria while doing fieldwork to being signed under a record label. See more in Health.

As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

I contracted malaria while working in the field. That was the impetus for me to pursue a doctorate in community health. As a young academic, I investigated the patterns of malaria's spread and the potential measures we could employ to...

Quotes by Tedros Adhanom

The federal government spends nearly half a trillion dollars on contracted goods and services; therefore, we must ensure that the money is being spent efficiently, and small businesses have proven that they can do quality work cheaper and often faster.

Quotes by Sam Graves

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.

Quotes by Roger Waters

Disease Quotes

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Quotes by Robert Toombs

Whoever makes something, having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process... is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get...

Quotes by Robert Nozick

I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

Quotes by Rebel Wilson

My maternal grandfather was born in Yorkshire in England but was contracted to work for a company who had a base in Colombia. So they moved across to Santa Martre, and they liked it very much. It was a sunny...

Quotes by Radamel Falcao

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease,...

Quotes by Pepa

Far Quotes

My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer.

Quotes by Paul G. Tremblay

My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad case of gastroenteritis. Everything feels so much worse when you don't speak the language, and you need that reassuring conversation...

Quotes by Louise Nurding

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

Quotes by Jim Sullivan

During the Volvo China Open in April 2011, a lot of players fell ill. My son also was taken ill. I contracted a strange viral later, which had symptoms of swollen ankles and wrists and has left me weakened.

Quotes by Jeev Milkha Singh

Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of...

Quotes by James Comey

Government Quotes

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

Quotes by Jack Henry Abbott

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Quotes by Henri Bergson

The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.

Quotes by Hans Vestberg

While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as...

Quotes by Gene Weingarten

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

Quotes by Evan Davis

Health Quotes

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

Quotes by David Alan Grier

Frequently Asked Questions

Does 'contracted' always refer to illness in these quotes?
No, it also refers to formal agreements, such as being signed to a record label or government spending contracts.
Is illness discussed in these quotes?
Yes, one quote describes contracting malaria while doing fieldwork, which led to pursuing a doctorate in community health.
Is the music industry mentioned?
Yes, one quote recalls being contracted to a label and how that limited the use of their own name at the time.
Do the quotes address government spending?
Yes, one line points out that federal spending on outsourced goods and services runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars each year.
Where can I find more quotes about health?
See Health for more sayings connected to illness and recovery.

Others turn to government spending on contracted goods and services, arguing that efficiency matters most. Continue with Disease and Government.