Harry Johnston Quotes

We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.

The Tsar lives in twenty rooms, let him occupy no more than five and have only five heated in the winter. He is served six dishes at table; let them give him three or four. The Tsaritsa will wear only a black dress...she will seem lovelier and sweeter to us. Three lumps of sugar are put into their children's tea; let them sip it through a single lump ...and when they complain of its not being sweet, tell them it is because the French are in the Crimea and the English at Kronstadt

The less we think or know about hygiene, the less we are predisposed to sickness.

Progress of preventive medicine as a preservative, made more effective by the progress of reason and social order, will eventually banish communicable or contagious illnesses and those diseases in general that originate in climate, food, and the nature of work…a time will come when death would result only from extraordinary accidents or the more and more gradual wearing out of vitality….Cannot the span constantly increase between the moment he begins to live and the time when naturally, without illness or accident, he finds life a burden?

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

I'm a human being, and I get sick.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

Man, a polar bear almost grabbed me once.

I'm from Sweden, where it's winter, like, half the year. And it's dark - we barely have any daylight.

When you are sick, you are sick. Period.

We grew up in Alaska and will rep The North Face all day long.

I'm not ill, I'm just pale.

I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled and needed no help from us.

I like snow, but I don't want to live in Siberia.

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.