Ill Quotes - Page 35

• A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

  George Muller

  Mean Girls, Servant Of God, World

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• Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

  Horatio Nelson

  Kings, Hate, Men

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

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• The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Personality, Historical

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• Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Art, Self

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• I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

  Katy Perry

  Honest, Truthful, Okay

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• I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

  Karl Pilkington

  Ideas, Swim, Dolphins

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

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• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  Karl Pilkington

  Hate, India, Idiot

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

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• I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Elderly, Cost

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• Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

  Pythagoras

  Judging, Done, Firsts

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• We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Speak, Egotism

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 138, 1678.

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• When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.

  Ann Romney

  Strong, Healthy, Bangs

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• It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Believe

  Person of the Year Runner-up 2007, content.time.com. December 19, 2007.

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• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Sight, Deeds Done

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 219

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• As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, College, Wind

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• It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, People, Quality

  "In Case of Emergency". www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Fear, Understanding

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

  Voltaire

  Eye, Color, May

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3307, Delphi Classics

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• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Weather, Skins

  E. B. White (2014). “Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Love, Inspirational, Angel

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

  Rudyard Kipling

  War, Men, Evil

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• She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

  Diane Setterfield

  Mean, Realizing

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

  Jane Austen

  Son, Years, Hopeless

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.182, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Lying, Reality, Understanding

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• If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Light, Effort, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Pnin”, p.85, Penguin UK

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