[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine… — Margrit Mondavi Copy Share Image
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
All my characters exist in risk, in the places we are either too afraid to go to, or have enough privilege not… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege… — John Green Copy Share Image
We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality… — Jennifer Morse Copy Share Image
It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Privilege implies exclusion from privilege, just as advantage implies disadvantage," Celine went on. "In the same mathematically reciprocal way, profit implies loss.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I… — Jim Lampley Copy Share Image
It's a privilege to be able to have an idea and go into a group of executives and say, "I really want… — Ryan T. Murphy Copy Share Image
Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to… — Tony La Russa Copy Share Image
Racial equality isn't a bonus or privilege, it is a fundamental right - as is equal opportunity. Yet equal opportunity doesn't necessarily… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much?… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
To go to L.A. and be on the Addams Family set? It was beautiful production design and an illustrious set. I'm focused… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege,… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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