Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
See how the world (whose chaste and pregnant womb Of late conceiv'd, and brought forth nothing ill) Is now degenerated, and become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It seemed to me singularly ill-contrived for the British government to be going to war with Hitler when Hitler might have been… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
I think that the Democratic Party has been ill served by identity politics. I think that ironically evangelicals have now bought into… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to… — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
