Ill Quotes
2328 quotes by 1379 authors
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of…
— Louis Kronenberger
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[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.
— Henry Fielding
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At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This…
— Barry McCaffrey
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If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their…
— Alfred Kinsey
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Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come…
— Sigmund Freud
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do…
— William Shakespeare
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,…
— Howard W. Hunter
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict…
— Jerry Bridges
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Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
— Hannah More
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Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have…
— Herman Melville
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
— Samuel Johnson
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Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And…
— C.S. Lewis
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Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.
— George Eliot
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Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.
— Aphra Behn
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The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't…
— Russell Simmons
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