Ill Quotes - Page 8

• There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

  Eva Braun

  Eye, Want, Week

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• Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Meaningful, Good Life, Views

  "Is it compassionate to prohibit suicide?". The Baltimore Sun, March 17, 2009.

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• Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

  Percival Lowell

  Thinking, Cramming, Stimulants

  "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.

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• Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

  Joey Comeau

  Rational, Wells, Mentally Ill

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• Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Astrology, Branches, Used

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1991). “The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth”, p.35, Summit University Press

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• Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ignorance, Ease, Stranger

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.100

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• I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results--or ill.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wings, World, Body

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.563, Delphi Classics

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• In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Doctrine

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• Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at all at first, and then, when she fell at his feet and worshiped him, answered that he did not spend his time doctoring dogs? Would you like him as a family physician?

  Helen H. Gardener

  Daughter, Dog, Thinking

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• As your power level goes down, you will become physically ill.

  Frederick Lenz

  Levels, Losing, Mysticism

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• Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

  Lucretius

  Brother, Hate, Atheism

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC.

  Ann Coulter

  America, Warning, Today

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. November 2013.

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• Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

  Plutarch

  Encouragement, Children, Mean

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• I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

  Rafe Spall

  Father, Becoming, Fats

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• I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

  Hattie Morahan

  Morning, Wall, Sleep

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• Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

  Francois Arnaud

  Forever, Acting, Roles

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• Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.

  John Dryden

  Men, Light, Heaven

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• Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.

  Martial

  Laughing

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• Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

  Jonathan Swift

  Flattery, Manners, Instance

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.625

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• A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

  Jonathan Swift

  Romance, Ingredients, Degenerates

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.582

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• Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

  George Herbert

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• If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Family, Home, House

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• Except wind stands as it never stood
  It is an ill wind turns none to good.

  Thomas Tusser

  Wind, Turns

  Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.39

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• They first condemn that first advised the ill.

  John Dryden

  Advice, Firsts

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.98

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• Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Heaven, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.741

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