Deprive Quotes

235 quotes by 209 authors

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. — George Washington
The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful… — Ellen G. White
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. — Lee Kuan Yew
The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of… — Thom Yorke
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death… — Michel de Montaigne
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry,… — Charles Baxter
Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys.… — David Gerrold
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company… — Thomas Paine
I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with… — Plutarch
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They… — Mark Twain
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations… — Thomas Jefferson
There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason… — Jacques Rigaut
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes… — Anais Nin
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the… — Bell Hooks
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. — Bertrand Russell
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has… — Elie Wiesel

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