Affording Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing…
— Annie Besant
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it…
— Thomas Szasz
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,…
— Gerhard Richter
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Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having…
— Sheridan Morley
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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
— Thorstein Veblen
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People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious…
— Youssou N'Dour
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Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the…
— Randy Alcorn
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What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in…
— Isabel Paterson
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... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well…
— Winston Churchill
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In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is…
— Rafael Sabatini
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[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.
— Avis Bohlen
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An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait…
— Benjamin Franklin
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose…
— Nassau William Senior
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If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously…
— Nigel Lythgoe
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Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the…
— Norm MacDonald
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The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying…
— Jakob Bohme
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Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I…
— Charles Comiskey
Who Wrote These Affording Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Affording Quotes as follows: