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Quotes About Ill

Gray had a whole vocabulary of smiles. Smiles to tease, smiles to charm, smiles to frighten, smiles to bode ill . . . smiles to win a female heart.
~ Unknown
If we are going to get serious about 'gun violence' we should get serious about facing the facts of the violent mentally ill.
~ Martha MacCallum
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
~ William Hazlitt
tacito mala vota susiro concipimus" -- Lucan v 94 With silent whisperings we, For ill things supplicants be.
~ Lucan
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
~ John Donne
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
~ Jonathan Swift
Under a program called T4, the Nazis between 1939 and 1941 rounded up 200,000 Germans who had been diagnosed as insane or incurably ill. Those people were then euthanized in gas chambers.8
~ Dinesh D'Souza
He was nearly erased by all the tragedy falling upon him. His Mamá had still ironed his shirts until she was taken ill. Everything on Earth was filled with sorrow. Little yellow weeds that broke through the tarmac made him feel weepy. The moon, like some pale paper cutout in the morning sky, overwhelmed him.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.
~ Unknown
But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans, The carefull Devil is still at hand with means; And providently Pimps for ill desires: The Good old Cause reviv'd, a Plot requires. Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up Common-wealths, and ruin Kings.
~ John Dryden
Thou has endowed man with the wisdom to relieve the suffering of his brother, to recognize his disorders, to extract the healing substances, to discover their powers and to apply them to suit every ill.
~ Maimonides
Tis an ill wind that blows no minds
~ Malaclypse the Younger
Keep close the words of Syadasti: 'TIS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO MINDS. And remember that there is no tyranny in the State of Confusion. For further information, consult your pineal gland.
~ Malaclypse the Younger
Dr. Cottard felt bound to say good night as soon as they rose from table, so as to go back to some patient who was seriously ill; "I don't know," Mme. Verdurin would say, "I'm sure it will do him far more good if you don't go disturbing him again this evening; he will have a good night without you; to-morrow morning you can go round early and you will find him cured.
~ Marcel Proust
What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill in me And wrought but malice. Lifted up so high
~ John Milton
The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest.
~ Orson Scott Card
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
~ Thomas Fuller
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
~ Benjamin Graham
Like most people at the time, Hitler believed that women who did not have children would eventually become mentally ill.
~ Martin Van Creveld
Fate is trying to kill me. I miss my dog. What's a doctor going to say? You're not ill, you're mad as a muffin? They'll either lock me up or tell me to get a grip and no one will believe the truth anyway.
~ Meg Rosoff
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
One thing you should know about me is that I am not a hugger. For the record, in New York, that is a perfectly acceptable way to be. If you hug someone there they are either a person in your immediate family whom you have not seen in months, or they are gravely ill.
~ Mindy Kaling
No'm he aint ill. Not unless laziness is a sickness. If it is, I'd say he's close to dying tomorrow.
~ Morgan Llywelyn
The taste of his blood in my mouth made me ill, and I vomited beside the body until the taste of bile overwhelmed anything else. Then I left him lying in the middle of the road and ran back to the garage. I needed to check on Mac before I took on the task of dealing with the dead werewolf
~ Patricia Briggs