"Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish……" — Eileen Wilks
"Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent."
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31 Quotes by Eileen Wilks
Eileen Wilks has 31 quotes on this site.
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Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
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Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.
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Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.
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Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
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Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a…
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Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
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People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?
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Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.
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Religion turned some folks belligerent.
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You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
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I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.
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How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
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There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend…
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The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high.…
— Philip Berrigan
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Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be…
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of…
— Mike Seabrook
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To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future,…
— Simon Schama
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What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what…
— Randy Alcorn
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful…
— Malcolm Wallop
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The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.
— David Rockefeller
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Why has America's fringe left been making common cause with the Taliban, whose views on such matters as women's rights…
— James Taranto
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
— Marcus Buckingham
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It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are…
— Claude Monet
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