Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• God
• True
• Words
• Health
• Interest
• Disease
• Charm
• Chords

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Never

• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Writers

• I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Up
  • City

• I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Law

• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Free
  • Football

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • You
  • Band

• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Real
  • View
  • Point Of View

• I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Remember

• True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • More
  • Media
  • Social Media

• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Make
  • Crowd
  • Teammates

• Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible. (p. 80)

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Money

• Identity theft is a serious crime that affects millions of Americans each year.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Serious
  • Identity
  • Crime

• I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Done
  • May

• Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Feels
  • Sparrow
  • Stork

• I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Rock
  • Star

• Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • God
  • True
  • Words