Quotes of: Ill Keyword

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Sholem Asch

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Alan Thicke

In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

Gail Sheehy

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Joseph Story

By visiting patients in their home, by helping them come to terms with their illness, I could heal when I could not cure.

Abraham Verghese

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Stephen Hawking

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

James Hillman

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

Thank God for acupuncture. It's been around for 2000 years. It's not going anyplace and people use it all of the time for a variety of cures and to avoid illnesses.

Tim Daly

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

Edmund Burke

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

William Dampier

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Tom Rath

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

Patty Duke

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Tony Snow

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

Charles Mackay

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

Harold Nicolson

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Ben Stein

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

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

Jack Osbourne