Afflicts Quotes

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Women, Men

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Disease, Artistic

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
Camille Paglia

Women, Children, Working

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Addiction, Immune, Ages

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Great, Country, Small

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
Fay Weldon

Through, Getting, Themselves

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.
Fred Upton

Busy, Problems, Often

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
Mel Gibson

Spiritual, Happens, Cancer

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
Fred Saberhagen

Writing, Problem, Far

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
Robert South

God, Mind, Father

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
Charles Inglis

Country, Same, Useless

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