We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness,… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it...… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
All living beings, things that move, are equally important, whether they are human beings, dogs, birds, fish, trees, ants, weeds, rivers, wind… — John Africa Copy Share Image
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
For me, the fall of the Wall came at the exact right time because, I mean, I was 17, basically I hadn't… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses,… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
People look at fame and feel deprived if they haven't got it, feeling that this is a basic, almost a human right,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My parents have struggled to bring me up well. I didn't feel like I was living affluently, but my parents deprived me… — Aditya Narayan Copy Share Image
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I believe that I was lucky to have suffered. Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students… — Gordon Tullock Copy Share Image
The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
The sense of doing good , the satisfaction of being right, the joy of looking favorably upon oneself, dear sir, are powerful… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image