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Quotes About Ill

I looked at Batsheva and suddenly felt as I had throughout that long night after I'd returned from Beit Lehem, when I sat up waiting for some stillborn vision. I knew now why I felt so ill that night. All through that vigil, he had been raping her. And I had let myself call it a seduction. As I looked at her now, I was shamed by my own thoughts. In a way, I, too, had violated her.
~ Geraldine Brooks
And as for myself, I tell you, I have had too much luck these last years. Do you believe that a man's luck can run forever? I know that it can't. For myself, I must somehow erect a bulwark against the ill fortune that is certain.
~ Gontran De Poncins
I have learned, since, that there are sailors who think a woman's presence aboard ship to be a sign of ill luck. Elua be thanked, D'Angelines are spared such idiotic superstitions.
~ Jacqueline Carey
A man walked into the doctor's, The doctor said 'I haven't seen you in a long time' The man replied, 'I know I've been ill'.
~ Tommy Cooper
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
~ Charley Reese
A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
~ Pericles
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
~ Ben Jonson
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
~ Aeschylus
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
~ Aeschylus
It must be the nowness of this disease that, in stealing the past and obscuring the future, forces us, the healthy and the ill, to stay in the moment.
~ Lauren Kessler
Nowhere does Niemeyer set out a specific aesthetic. In "The Autonomous Man" he notes that the imagination can be used for good or ill. In the broadest sense, he believed that the imagination could move either in the direction of autonomy, creating self-enclosed systems, or in the direction of participation, that is, a deepening of our sense of the mystery that surrounds our existence.
~ Gregory Wolfe
What was good, and what was ill, What would save life, and what would kill. Thus gone, amongst you I may live, And dead, yet speak and counsel give. Farewell, my birds, farewell, adieu, I happy
~ James Patterson
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
~ Thomas Fuller
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
~ Thomas Fuller
Israel is the heart of all nations." It was the conscience and the raw exposed nerve; all emotion passed through it. But it was more than that; it was the heart that suffered whenever any part of the body was ill.
~ Norman Mailer
to be innocent of ill is no security ;
~ Walter Scott
But Mr. Glanville was in a terrible Confusion, and silently cursed his ill Fate, to make him in Love with a Woman so ridiculous.
~ Charlotte Lennox
sickly gray color, in which a handful of scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses the
~ Lemony Snicket
scraggly trees produce apples so sour that one only has to look at them to feel ill. Lousy Lane traverses
~ Lemony Snicket
Jane had written the direction remarkably ill.
~ Jane Austen
Though always objecting to every marriage that was arranged, he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any; it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons' understanding as to suppose they meant to marry till it were proved against them.
~ Jane Austen
wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of anybody. I only want to think YOU perfect, and you set yourself against it.
~ Jane Austen
It was some time, indeed, before it came to this, for, but I know not by what ill fate guided, everything went wrong with us afterwards, and that which was worse, my husband grew strangely altered, forward, jealous, and unkind, and I was as impatient of bearing his carriage, as the carriage was unreasonable and unjust.
~ Daniel Defoe
Should anyone try to speak ill of them, we have Gabrial to protect us." "Then they're doomed," Gossana said,
~ Chris d'Lacey