Ill Treatment Quotes

#1. The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#2. Lear's daughters and their loathsome husbands are all deservedly slaughtered for their ill treatment of an aged ruler (one of the reasons that tragedy remains so huge in Asia)

Boris Johnson

#3. Patience ... speaks of a person's steadfastness under provocation ... enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge.

Billy Graham

#4. There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!

Georgette Heyer

#5. There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you.

Robin Hobb

#6. Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

Plutarch

#7. Among other things, the catechism said: "Ill treatment of animals bears witness to a cruel and godless heart." The boy recited, "A hundred and eleven treatment of animals bears witness to a cruel and godless heart.

Halldor Laxness

#8. She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.

Jeane Westin

#9. It's as if people
normal people
are made of silver. Shiny to start with, but tarnished by time, by ill-treatment. Luca ... Luca is gold. Nothing in the world could ever make him shine less brightly.

Zoe Marriott

#10. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.

Philip Palmer

#12. If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#13. Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Fillmore

#14. At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Herbert M. Shelton

#15. Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

Bob Monkhouse

#16. I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

Colum McCann

#18. Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

Zakk Wylde

#19. Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

Thomas Szasz

#20. If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#21. I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?

Tamsin Greig

#22. What tormented Ivan Ilych most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason they all accepted, that he was not dying but was simply ill, and that he only need keep quiet and undergo a treatment and then something very good would result.

Leo Tolstoy

#23. Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

Marlene Dietrich

#24. In the United States, the person who led the fight to reform treatment of the mentally ill and to develop asylums was Dorothea Dix. Often neglected in history, Dix was a nurse

Molly Caldwell Crosby

#25. After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

Jeff Flake

#26. A business that doesn't implement a strategy of automation in the client acquisition process is doomed to have slow growth, even puts itself at risk of declining

Bob Mangat

#27. I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

Don Hertzfeldt

#28. The idea of unlimited growth... needs to be seriously questioned on at least two counts: the availability of basic resources and... the capacity of the environment to cope with the degree of interference implied. - E.F. Schumacher

Wayne Ellwood

#29. Either you trust a man and give him authority to carry out his treatment or you do not. When it goes well you are happy that you did so. When it goes ill you think, if only . . .

Winston Graham

#30. Everyone is mentally ill, they just haven't figured out a name for yours yet.

Chris Sprudz

#31. If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.

Ned Kelly

#32. And being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full.

Winston S. Churchill

#33. When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.

Jonathan Swift

#34. Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows ... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

Geena Davis

#35. Nature, though. Nature always welcomed him. She passed no judgements, didn't care about right or wrong, guilt or innocence.

Peter Watts