Ill Quotes - Page 26

• Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development.

  Al Gore

  Space, Needs, Development

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• There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

  Brian Blessed

  Volcanoes, America, People

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• Think not I dread to see my spirit fly,
  Through the dark gates of fell mortality;
  Death has no terrors when the life is true;
  'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dark, Thinking, Spirit

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Gratitude, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

  Ruby Wax

  People, Brain, Organs

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• Without love we fall ill.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Without Love

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• Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Thinking, Ill Will

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

  Tracey Emin

  Very Good, Feels Right, Ifs

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• When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.

  Tracey Emin

  Hangover, Upset, Bed

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• In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators. The soft nerds are the ones who get violently ill whenever anybody mentions an integral sign.

  Alan Kay

  Nerd, Our Society, Slides

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• To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

  Socrates

  Phrases, Use, Helping

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• People who relax by watching TV instead of going out to engage with the world tend to be far less energetic. the benefits of exercise in protecting against depression and mental ill-health are huge. Those around you can also affect your energy levels. Self-talk also works wonders on energy levels.

  Liz Miller

  Exercise, Self, Ill Health

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• Luck is for the ill-prepared.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Luck, Prepared

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• An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Mind, Principles, Body

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• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It...makes you think that after all, your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded....Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are disposed more or less to ill-treat the original man who brings it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Pain, Hate, Men

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• The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans?

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, America, What If

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• Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Government, Tariffs, Regulation

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• Washington continues to encourage ever more ill-considered lending in a misguided attempt to stave off needed market corrections. The currently proposed combination of a nationwide infrastructure spending orgy plus tax-cut bribes does nothing to remedy that.

  Michelle Malkin

  Cutting, Doe, Combination

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• In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Animal, Law

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• I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

  Mark Twain

  Able, Enough, Undertaker

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• [A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country

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• There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Extra Help, Wind

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• The oboe's a horn made of wood.
  I'd play you a tune if I could,
  But the reeds are a pain,
  And the fingering's insane.
  It's the ill wind that no one blows good.

  Ogden Nash

  Pain, Blow, Wind

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• I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.

  Eran Creevy

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Anxious. Intriguing word. It literally means, "to be divided" or "distracted." It conveys the idea of being so mentally ill at ease that you cannot do what you need to do because you are so distracted in your thinking.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  Charles R. Swindoll (2012). “Perfect Trust”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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