Ill Quotes

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But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only governing rule that we… — Hunter S. Thompson
If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous… — William Ernest Henley
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her. — Benjamin Franklin
A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. — Abraham Lincoln
In the motive lies the good or ill. — Samuel Johnson
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to… — Lord Chesterfield
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. — Walter Raleigh
The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are… — Alexander Pope
Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. — John Milton
Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust. — Mason Cooley
T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. — Ronald Reagan
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves. — Indira Gandhi
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from… — Blaise Pascal
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,… — Neil Postman
We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. — Lionel Trilling
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty,… — Michael Dorris
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe
For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it. — Martine McCutcheon
I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where… — Samantha Morton
The diagnosis of homosexuality as a "disorder" is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill.... Nothing is more… — Ronald Goldman
I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I… — Ali Smith
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office,… — Anne-Marie Slaughter

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