Best Deprived Proverbs
297 Deprived quotes by 267 unique authors
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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were…
— Thomas Paine
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Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am…
— Thomas de Quincey
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed…
— John Ruskin
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My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art…
— Jerry Saltz
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An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as…
— Robert Schumann
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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all…
— Wole Soyinka
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means…
— Wole Soyinka
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I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
— Meryl Streep
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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their…
— Lech Walesa
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it…
— John F. Kennedy
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;…
— John Stuart Mill
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If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
— Jane Addams
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Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine,…
— Aldous Huxley
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When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for…
— Cesar Chavez
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Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities.
— Janet Evanovich
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I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the…
— William H. Gass
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I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I finished the fifteenth,…
— Richelle Mead
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Human has always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there's nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have…
— Philip K. Dick
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Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels…
— Alan Lightman
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For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even…
— Patrick O'Brian
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A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
— Saul Bellow
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Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive…
— Primo Levi
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They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to…
— Paulo Coelho
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