I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.
In my head maybe it was a test of love, because there are things about illness which I find revolting.
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.
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.
Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
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.
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.
If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.
