Divested Quotes

21 quotes by 18 authors

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. — James A. Baldwin
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested… — B R Ambedkar
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of… — Albert Camus
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of… — Thomas Jefferson
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. — George Berkeley
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at… — James Levine
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in… — Roland Huntford
The price of clinging to the enemy [a man] is your life. To enter into a relationship with a man who has divested himself as… — Ti-Grace Atkinson
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but… — Charles Lamb
If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will… — Vincent de Paul
There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some… — Harold Jeffreys
I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there are… — Jane Kenyon
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during… — Robert Dale Owen
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free… — Henry Fuseli
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. — Henry David Thoreau
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested… — Henry Miller
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air… — Henry David Thoreau
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again… — Cormac McCarthy
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime… — Cormac McCarthy

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