Afflicts Quotes

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour… — Joseph Hall
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to… — Jules de Goncourt
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th'… — Finley Peter Dunne
Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them… — Jeremiah Burroughs
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been… — Fred Saberhagen
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history,… — Stephen Vizinczey
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. — Agnes Repplier
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive… — Kenny Smith
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just… — Pope Francis
Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve the problem of anger, we… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. — Fay Weldon
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid… — Charles Inglis
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener. — Michael Pollan
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. — Robert South
Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies… — Fred Upton
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people. — H. L. Mencken
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. — Mel Gibson

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