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Quotes About Ill

Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reins
~ Michael Connelly
have taken place in my lifetime on this planet of ours, then you will see things quite as clearly in black and white as I do. You can only judge people by their actions, not by their protestations. People act for good or they act for ill and those who do great ill are bad and those who do great good—they are good.
~ Michael Moorcock
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
~ George Herbert
For good and ill deeds belong to a man alone, when he stands alone on the other side of death, But here upon earth you have the reward of the good and ill that was done by those who have gone before you. And all that is ill you may repair if you walk together in humble repentance, expiating the sins of your fathers; And all that was good you must fight to keep with hearts as devoted as those of your fathers who fought to gain it.
~ T.S. Eliot
My brother had never been the most rational of agents, but this one was the ill zinger.
~ Junot Diaz
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
~ Harold Nicolson
We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.
~ William Godwin
I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.
~ Joe Jamail
We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together. So too must we with good and ill, which are of one substance with our life.
~ Michel de Montaigne
That's really bad, concluded the host, say what you will, but there's something evil lurking in men who avoid wine, games, the society of delightful women, table talk. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly hate those around them. True, exceptions are possible. Among those who have sat down with me at the banqueting table, there have sometimes been some astonishing scoundrels! And so, I'm listening to why you're here.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.
~ Richard Hovey
I can't talk, or I will throw up!
~ William Shakespeare
It shouldn't be a surprise—and it pleases me no end—that Beckett was an avid cyclist. "The bicycle is a great good," he once wrote. "But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
~ Bruce Weber
Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.
~ Cameron Dokey
Tú siempre has tenido ese carácter distante, como si participaras en un juego en el que no te importa demasiado ganar o perder, y ahora has perdido, más que perdido has abandonado el juego, posees ese extraño encanto que normalmente sólo se da en personas muy ancianas o en enfermos desahuciados. El encanto de los derrotados. Pareces tan frío, tan frío, tan envidiablemente frío.
~ Tennessee Williams
He had the look of an atheist who'd just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.
~ Karen Chance
I want him pissed off at politicians, ill at ease, trying to manipulate me into doing favors for him I would do anyway. I want him looking for his glasses, trying not to come, doing the dumb verb of journaling, getting spinach caught between canine and gum, berating my logorrhea, or my not staying mum. I don't want him at peace.
~ Karen Green
At least he I want him pissed off at politicians, ill at ease, trying to manipulate me into doing favors for him I would do anyway. I want him looking for his glasses, trying not to come, doing the dumb verb of journaling, getting spinach caught between canine and gum, berating my logorrhea, or my not staying mum. I don't want him at peace.
~ Karen Green
For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.
~ Herman Melville
This is the tale of spontaneous Arabella Who ran off with an extrinsic fellow. It grieved her parents to see their first born Evanesce from her home to go to Eastbourne Without permission, to get ill and find indigence Until she was down to her last sixpence.
~ Ian Mcewan
Trump has been criticized by mainstream Republicans for not really being one of them. But he is definitely one of them when it comes to the central palliative for any ill befalling the country: a tax cut for the rich.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.
~ James Merrick
Faygo's like a Detroit thing, and you can't really find it everywhere, but the difference between Faygo Creme Soda and other cream sodas is that it's foamy. Faygo Creme Soda is almost like Sprite, but it's cream soda, so that's ill!
~ Danny Brown
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
~ Joni Mitchell