Quotes with ill-acted

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  • William Shakespeare Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abraham Cowley All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • E. B. White 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
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • C. S. Forester Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Charles Mackay An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jeremy Collier Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Molière Books and marriage go ill together.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Alexander Pope But when mischief mortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
    Source: Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • H.G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Berenice Abbott Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
    Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia  Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ben Nelson For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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