Divest Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the… — Thomas Paine
The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were… — Carl Sagan
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to… — Alexander Hamilton
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will… — Merle Shain
The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. — Swami Vivekananda
He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a… — Maria Montessori
All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity;… — George Mason
No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto;… — Fletcher Knebel
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the… — Edith Wharton
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself… — David Cronenberg
As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of… — William John Locke
So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some… — George Saunders
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be… — James Wolcott
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal… — George Edward Woodberry
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie… — Sue Monk Kidd
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable?… — James Fenimore Cooper
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those… — John Marshall
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those… — John Marshall

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