Availed Quotes

#1. I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

Bellamy Young

#2. Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.

Zubin Mehta

#3. He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.

Martin Luther

#4. When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.

Teri Hatcher

#5. Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,
at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.

Michael Waller

#7. Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the world could do.

Nikolai Gogol

#8. I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

Chang-rae Lee

#9. What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#10. We stood at the turning point ... Half-measures availed us nothing.

Stephen King

#11. As children, our protests availed little. As adults, the same.

Mason Cooley

#12. A man who might have been symmetrical, well-rounded, had he availed himself of every opportunity of touching life along all sides, remains a pygmy in everything except his own little specialty, because he did not cultivate his social side. It

Orison Swett Marden

#13. It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.

Archibald Marwizi

#14. Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

John Milton

#15. For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.

Hermann Hesse

#16. For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Chris Daughtry

#17. My veracity is dearer to me than my life," said the peasant; "nor would I purchase the one by forfeiting the other.

Horace Walpole

#18. Man is never perfect, nor contended.

Jules Verne

#19. I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

Melissa Joan Hart

#20. Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

Pema Chodron

#21. With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

Nikki Reed

#22. God is not interested in your ability. He is
interested in your availability. When you avail
your ability to God, you become a faithful leader.

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

Rabia Basri

#24. As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#25. Reader, I'd marry her.

Steven Moore

#26. I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.

George MacDonald Fraser

#27. To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier.

W. H. Auden