Quotes of Divest - somelinesforyou

“ I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it. ”

- Dobie Gillis

“ Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have. ”

- H. Jackson Browne Jr.

“ But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. ”

- Placido Domingo

“ It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have. ”

- Unknown

“ O superstition! Your inflexible rigours deprive humanity of the most sensitive hearts. ”

- Voltaire

“ Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ 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 of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. ”

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“ Love is that divinity who creates peace among men, repose and sleep in sadness. Love divests us of all alienation from each other, and fills our vacant hearts with overflowing sympathy… ”

- Plato

“ 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

“ 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 of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs. ”

- Henry Miller

“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”

- Roland Barthes

“ The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton
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