Ill Quotes - Page 33

• I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

  Roseanne Barr

  Differences, Sometimes, I Can

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• No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

  Joe Barton

  Nuclear, United States, Kind

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• It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Good Luck, Agreement, People

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• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, War, Poison

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

  William J. Brennan

  Fundamentals, Use, Fairness

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• We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Power, Alive, Flattery

  "Of Great Nobles". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Politics

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

  A. S. Byatt

  World, Absence, Reason

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• I don’t have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  Adam Carolla

  Ill Will

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and started to act.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Father, Agents

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• Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Army, Air

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• In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mind, Stronger, Body

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• People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

  Elvis Costello

  People, Sometimes, Said

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• I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

  Simon Cowell

  Cancer, Stress, Believe

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• Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Perspective, Shadow

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

  Alan Dershowitz

  People, Insane, Wells

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• Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  George Eliot

  Love, Vanity, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Frightened

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Doctors, Goal, Today

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Hip Hop

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• I think that I'm so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Thinking, Interesting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

  Thomas Fuller

  Anger, Heart, Tongue

  Thomas Fuller (1815). “An introduction to prudence”, p.234

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