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"There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut."
"The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick."
"Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me."
"They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic."
"Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous"
"There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick."
"Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough."
"Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend."
"The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising."
"Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected."
"The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick."
"A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power."
"Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin."
"We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves."
"None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick."
"I felt sick. Buying Kisten’s and my safety from Piscary was so wrong. But it was either that or deal with a demon, and I’d rather keep my soul clean and let my morals get dingy."
"Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber."
"It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves."
"I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either."
"A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco."
