Sick Quotes - Page 39

• Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right.
  Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray,
  Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
  Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Prayer, Light, Long

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369

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• Visiting the sick is supposed to exhibit such great virtue that there are some people determined to do it whether the sick like it or not. ... All visitors everywhere are supposed to make plans to depart if they observe their hosts visibly wilting or in pain, but this is especially true at hospitals.

  Judith Martin

  Pain, People, Visitors

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Writing, Rights, Years

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• [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

  Rebecca West

  Cute, Made, Chic

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• Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, Care, Poverty

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• I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

  Jane Wagner

  Trends, Victim

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• It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Absence, Fallen, Only Love

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• We never get sick of each other. That's how sick we are.

  Roseanne Barr

  Love And Marriage

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• I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Morning, Men

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.206, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Nurse, Principles

  Notes on Hospitals Preface

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• the seeker who embraces positive theology finds ... that you can have all that stuff in the mall, as well as the beautiful house and car, if only you believe that you can. But ... if you don't have all that you want, if you feel sick, discouraged, or defeated, you have only yourself to blame. Positive theology ratifies and completes a world without beauty, transcendence, or mercy.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Beautiful, Believe, Defeated You

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• Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

  George du Maurier

  Sweet, Lying, Past

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• There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Healing, Thinking, Herbs

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.45, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

  Fanny Fern

  Book, Taken, Healing

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.54

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• I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

  Fanny Fern

  Falling In Love, People, Tongue

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.143, The Floating Press

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• The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

  Bette Midler

  Movie, Ecosystems, Film

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• The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Prayer, Reform, Heal

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.9, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a letter to a sponsored child, serve in the inner city, at a food bank, with a crisis pregnancy center. Make time for shut-ins, the elderly, the sick, the single-parents, the new believers. Just find one way you can make your awareness of your gift-graced life intersect with a real place of need - and Christ in us will do the rest.

  Ann Voskamp

  Country, Children, Real

  Source: livesentresources.wordpress.com

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• I am no kind of philanthropist or humanitarian, but it is really nice to get those emails from all over the world of people who said, I had nothing to laugh at or my son was really sick or my husband is really sick and we put on your DVDs and we laughed, thanks for making the real world go away for a little while.

  Jeff Dunham

  Husband, Real, Nice

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

  Ryan Gosling

  Ideas, Creative, Feels

  "The Ides of March - Ryan Gosling interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

  Laurence Sterne

  Loss, Compassion, Might

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• Home is the best place to be sick in.

  Margaret Deland

  Home, Illness, Best Place

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

  Carrie Fisher

  Secret, Way, Behind My Back

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• The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil.

  Harriet Martineau

  Powerful, Evil, Rooms

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.17

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• Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room ... Let the nurse avow that the medicine is nauseous. Let the physician declare that the treatment will be painful. Let sister, or brother, or friend, tell me that I must never look to be well. When the time approaches that I am to die, let me be told that I am to die, and when.

  Harriet Martineau

  Brother, Truth, Medicine

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