Incurable Quotes
118 quotes by 100 authors
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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a…
— Mark Twain
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It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility,…
— Phyllis Schlafly
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I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body.…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
— Alistair Cooke
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Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper…
— Amory Lovins
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Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
— Juvenal
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
— Nick Park
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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent…
— Georges Rouault
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce…
— Sigmund Freud
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Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope.
— Ogden Nash
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...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the…
— Chris Higgins
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Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
— Marcel Proust
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Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of…
— Pliny the Elder
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There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
— Timothy Keller
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Wanderlust is incurable.
— Mark Jenkins
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Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the…
— Louise Hay
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In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All…
— C.S. Lewis
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My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged…
— Bella Abzug
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