Pandemic Quotes

“A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Disasters are an opportunity for the worst of humanity. And the best.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“So you don’t want to believe?” “With science, what I want is irrelevant. Proof of a hypothesis is all that matters.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Life is uncertain; in the end we control only a single thing: our own thoughts. He”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Life is uncertain; in the end we control only a single thing: our own thoughts.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Human history has a repeating theme: we battle pandemics, we lose, we die, it burns itself out, and we rebuild. We always come out the other side stronger. Humanity marches on.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Dreamers die foolish deaths.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“For her, thinking was the greatest enemy of sleep.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the natural world. But every now and then, the war reignites. An old pathogen, long dormant, returns. A new mutation emerges. Those events are the epidemics and pandemics we confront. They are the battles we fight.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Of course, nothing inspires curiosity like a secret”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Lying there in silence, Elim thought about how quickly a person’s fate could change, how precious life and health are. He had walked into this very room two days ago as a practicing physician, a man in control, with the power to heal, looking down on the sick American on the same bed where he himself now lay. He had never known just how different the world looked from the other side.
He vowed that if he became well, he would cherish every day. And although he had never wished ill health on another person, there and then he wondered if every physician might benefit from being sick—really sick—just once. He wondered if it would make them all care a little more, or work a little harder, to have been on the other side for a while—to have placed their life and livelihood in the hands of a stranger, even if for only a short period. He had considered himself a very conscientious physician before this, but he imagined that if he lived, he would be even more dedicated to his patients.
Staring at the ceiling, he was reminded of an old Indian proverb: A healthy person has a hundred wishes, but a sick person has only one.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Our brains are like a muscle, Desmond: they become conditioned to the strain they must endure. We are an exceptionally adaptive species. We change to survive in the environment in which we exist.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

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― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“antibody, which she administered via their nasal passages. The problem was, her therapy didn’t effectively cross the blood-brain barrier and reach the plaques in the parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s. In what might go down as one of the greatest twists of scientific luck, Solomon decided to attach her antibody to a virus called M13 to transport it across the blood-brain barrier. M13 was a special type of virus called a bacteriophage—a virus that infected only bacteria. And M13 infected only one type of bacteria: Escherichia coli, or E. coli. To Solomon’s surprise, the antibody, when attached to M13, showed great success in her trials. But what was truly surprising was that the group of mice treated with the M13 virus alone—without Solomon’s antibody therapy—”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“If you fly too high, the sun will melt your wings. If you fly too low, the sea’s dampness will weigh you down. The story rang true to Desmond. The market’s exuberance and implosion were in league with the allegory of Icarus, but so was life. People who flew too high—who lived beyond their means and ability—were bound for failure. As were those who never took a chance. Despite”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Paradise was the product of one’s life experiences and desires.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“People often say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s hogwash. Some events a person just can’t recover from. They don’t make you stronger, they make you weaker, no matter how hard you try to cover it up or how strong you try to act.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Warren Buffett’s adage, “When others are fearful, be greedy; when others are greedy, be fearful,”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Survival sometimes requires us to do things we don’t want to do.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Rejection eats at a person like a worm winding its way through an apple: sooner or later it reaches the core, and you become completely rotten.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“I believe we’re witnessing the beginning stages of a technology explosion that will someday make anything possible.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“I want to create a world where any person can be repaired, no matter how broken their body or mind or heart.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“He wanted to change the world—to help create a world where no one grew up the way he had.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“thinking was the enemy of sleep.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“It is a global war—a war that has raged since our ancestors took their first steps. It may never end. This war has no borders, no treaties, no ceasefire. Our enemy lives among us. It is invisible, immortal, always adapting—and testing our defenses for weakness.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“After a year of treatment, the mice that received M13 had, on average, less than a fourth of the plaques of those in the control group.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Rejection eats at a person like a worm winding its way through an apple: sooner or later it reaches the core, and you become completely rotten. I”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Time works miracles.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic

“Companies that succeed have a founder or a leadership team that fundamentally understands their customers, sometimes even better than customers know themselves. They imagine what the customer wants before they know they want it, and they package it in a way that is irresistible. And, they manage well. xTV had the vision, but not the discipline.”
― A.G. Riddle, Pandemic