Ill Quotes

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There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging… — Guy Gavriel Kay
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and… — Jane Austen
Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do.… — Dalai Lama
Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This… — Joel Fuhrman
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did… — Diane Setterfield
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in… — John Steinbeck
Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side. — William Shakespeare
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour… — Thomas Hardy
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. — Jeanette Winterson
What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good… — T.A. Barron
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,… — Thomas Hardy
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. -… — Mahatma Gandhi
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts —… — Charlotte Bronte
Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until… — Tom Robbins
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign… — Miller Williams
The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'. — E E Cummings
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… — E. M. Forster
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the… — Nick Hornby

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