Curtailed Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. — Taylor Caldwell
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist.… — Ian Anderson
Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school. — Ivan Illich
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly… — John J. Raskob
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each… — Marianne Moore
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. — William O. Douglas
This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association,… — William O. Douglas
You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity. — John Newcombe
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected. — Ludwig Quidde
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace. — W. E. B. Du Bois
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have… — Hans Haacke
In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the… — Vladimir Lenin
Children, it should be repeated, are not pocket editions of adults, because childhood is a period of physical growth and development, a period of preparation… — Grace Abbott
The friends of evangelical doctrine, and the advocates of orthodoxy, have the following objects to keep ever in view in this age; they must take… — John Angell James
If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated. — David A. Bednar
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty… — William Shakespeare
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a… — Alberto Manguel
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the… — Anton Chekhov

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