Deprivation Quotes · Page 3

Sleep deprivation over quite a short period of time can make you paranoid.

— Michael Portillo

“(a deprivation that, in truth, was not so much a daily trial of living as a suffocating flatness of life),”

— Jonathan Stone

Sleep deprivation impairs everything from your motor skills to your reaction time.

— Amy Morin

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

— Amartya Sen

In Finland in the winter, when the sky is totally choked with clouds, the country becomes one big sensory deprivation tank.

— Charles Platt

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

— John Ashbery

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression…

— Erich Fromm

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

— Cate Blanchett

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything…

— J. Maarten Troost

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we…

— Samuel Johnson

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced…

— Jim Stanford

“Loss, this was what he felt. Loss and deprivation. One man owns, another man craves - the craving far more passionate than…

— Anthony McCarten

When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new…

— Carnie Wilson

“Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines…

— Amy Dacyczyn

In spite of nuclear weapons, large numbers of American citizens feel totally insecure. And in spite of so much wealth, industry and…

— Satish Kumar

“Sometimes it takes a long, long time before we can glean enrichment from the deprivation and suffering which has baffled and overwhelmed us. —Mildred…

— Susan Lenzkes

[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by…

— Bob Black

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts…

— Desmond Tutu

Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

For too long we have been protecting the ones who have hurt us by minimizing our trauma and deprivation. It's time to…

— Beverly Engel

Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger,…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

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

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

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

— Marya Mannes

“High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.”

— Steven Magee

“... living a life filled with deprivation and working from sunrise to sunset from your earliest years isn't to anybody's taste.”

— María Dueñas

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

— Robertson Davies

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber.

— Bill Bryson

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

— Victoria Moran

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the…

— El Greco

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.

— Robert Atkins

Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.

— Eknath Easwaran

Eating well isn't about dieting or deprivation, so you shouldn't feel that you're bound to certain rules.

— Ella Woodward

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

— Geneen Roth

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

— Chris Patten

“Suicide is nothing, but an act of depriving the soul from it's very right to liberation.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

— Richard Simmons