Top 38 Curtailed Quotes
#1. We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.
Rafael Cruz
#2. Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
P. J. O'Rourke
#3. One of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
Machado De Assis
#4. The two largest oil-producing countries in Latin America, Mexico and Venezuela, sold petroleum to Nicaragua at concessional rates for several years beginning in 1980. The program was curtailed because Nicaragua could not make even reduced payments.
Stephen Kinzer
#5. Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.
Rollo May
#6. There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#7. Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
Ludwig Quidde
#8. Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches
why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'
Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.
Patrick O'Brian
#10. Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#11. If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.
David A. Bednar
#12. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Taylor Caldwell
#13. The pressure to conform to 'politically correct' speech is primarily a pressure not to use certain expressions. But when our freedom to use certain expressions is taken away, then our ability to think in certain ways is also curtailed.
Wayne Grudem
#14. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
Alberto Manguel
#15. You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.
John Newcombe
#16. Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society
once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
William O. Douglas
#17. Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.
Ivan Illich
#18. The majority of men are curtailed "I's"; what was planned by nature as a possibility capable of being sharpened into an I is soon dulled into a third person.
Soren Kierkegaard
#19. The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul."
Marianne Moore
#20. Tea Party adherents seemed to arrive at their dislike of the federal government via three routes--through their religious faith (the government curtailed the church, they felt), through hatred of taxes (which they saw as too high and too progressive), and through its impact on their loss of honor.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#21. My traditional moment of triumph at escaping yet again was curtailed by a muscular arm that reached from the darkness and yanked me to one side.
Mark Lawrence
#22. Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.
Anwar Ibrahim
#23. If you love someone your freedom is curtailed, if you love someone you give up much of your privacy, if you love someone you are not merely one person but half of a couple, to think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#24. Six hours' uninterrupted sleep each night, correspondenceanswered promptly, tenants provided for, base temptations avoided,swearing curtailed, regular visits to church - this righteous routine kepthim on track, but he began to think it could not transform him.
Meredith Duran
#25. Because she thinks the future...is safe-
The last thing she whispers is: 'We're gonna be all right my gel.'
We're gonna be all right.
Clara Brennan
#26. Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
Erica Jong
#27. I discovered something that night that most people never have to learn: murder is sin, murder is damnation (surely of one's own mind and spirit, even if the atheists are right and there is no afterlife), but murder is also work.
Stephen King
#28. Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.
KRS-One
#29. I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.
Joe Piscopo
#30. You are the breath I need to breathe. I live for you, Alexis. Without you, I am nothing." - Jackson Cole
Sarah Curtis
#31. I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.
Claes Oldenburg
#32. Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.
Nicole Scherzinger
#33. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them. *1937
Samuel Beckett
#34. Scavenger birds love the taste of human flesh, a fact most humans would have no way of knowing.
Sam McPheeters
#35. You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?
Lisa Dekis
#36. We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.
Christian Scott
#37. To reignite creativity, innovation, and learning, leaders must rehumanize education and work. This means understanding how scarcity is affecting the way we lead and work, learning how to engage with vulnerability, and recognizing and combating shame.
Brene Brown
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