“I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
[On sex:] ... the total deprivation of it produces irritability. — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the… — El Greco Copy Share Image
If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise. — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation. — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
“How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
“It’s material deprivation that starts all this off.” “They’ve got dishwashers, Miranda,” Billa said. “They’re not examples of material deprivation.” — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Quantum wellness isn’t about deprivation and it’s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation. — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image