Afflicted Quotes
156 quotes by 137 authors
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There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on…
— Alan Thicke
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The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts…
— Martin Luther
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More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and…
— Ron Kind
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We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the…
— Richard Hofstadter
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Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace with them, leave…
— Renita J. Weems
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If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
— George Steiner
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The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
— Russell Baker
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but…
— Mark Twain
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Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances…
— Howard Stern
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Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls
— William Styron
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The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist…
— Oswald Chambers
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The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
— Bhartrhari
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Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
— Frank B. Kellogg
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and…
— Philip Yancey
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Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
— William Blake
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Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.
— Ovid
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Who Wrote These Afflicted Quotes
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