Privileged Quotes
399 quotes by 362 authors
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Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going…
— Gladys Knight
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In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged…
— Bella Abzug
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I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history
— Helen Thomas
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There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". ... Language can be used to transmit information, but it…
— Noam Chomsky
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For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our…
— George Lakoff
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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
— Brennan Manning
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Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged…
— Susan Sontag
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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in…
— Stanley Kubrick
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I'm privileged that I'm an artist.
— Nelly Furtado
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Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
— J I Packer
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We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.
— Sheldon Richman
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Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith,
— Pope Francis
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Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times…
— Anthony Marra
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To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how…
— Norman Mailer
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My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process…
— Patti Smith
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I’m a happy fellow. I feel very privileged, lucky, that I have had a wonderful life. And that I have been always allowed to do…
— Oscar de la Renta
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Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that…
— Rory McIlroy
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The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a…
— Aga Khan IV
Who Wrote These Privileged Quotes
362 authors contributed a total of 399 Privileged Quotes, led by these top contributors: