Ill Quotes

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Man is ill because he is never still.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.

Better do nothing than do ill.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

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.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

The state of ill health is a moment to moment happening. Healing is moment to moment balance, bringing awareness to our thoughts, feelings and emotions and how we respond.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed

When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

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

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.