Quotes with ill-desert

Quotes 141 till 156 of 156.

  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling 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.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bernard Sanders We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.
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  • Buddha Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Anthony Trollope When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bill Gross When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • William Shakespeare Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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