Top 100 Quotes About Deprive
#1. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.
Lewis Carroll
#3. Negative thoughts about us and our life may deprive us of our health
Sunday Adelaja
#4. I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.
Jessica Simpson
#5. As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.
Beverley Nichols
#6. But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
James Madison
#7. Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Ken Burns
#8. Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.
John Yoo
#9. So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.
Zach Braff
#10. We have forgotten that children are designed by nature to learn through self-directed play and exploration, and so, more and more, we deprive them of freedom to learn, subjecting them instead to the tedious and painfully slow learning methods devised by those who run the schools.
Peter Gray
#11. The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals ... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
Albert Gallatin
#12. The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.
John Quincy Adams
#13. Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.
Victor Hugo
#14. What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
Richard Mentor Johnson
#15. Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art ...
Allan Bloom
#16. In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.
Drexel Deal
#17. The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us; it is our own in a way that nothing else in life is. In a word, we are our past; we do not cling to it, it clings to us.
Grace King
#19. The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.
Dan Brown
#20. I try not to deprive myself of anything. I don't do the low-carb thing or anything like that.
Alicia Sacramone
#21. The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
Loretta Lynch
#22. Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.
Philippe Petit
#23. If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accept of who you are and your hopes would be fulfilled if you are persistent with yourself.
Saaif Alam
#24. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen
Peter Slevin
#25. Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
Ann Radcliffe
#26. Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.
Nelson Mandela
#27. There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
Byron White
#30. Man's highest joy is in victory: to conquer one's enemies; to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
#31. I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
Woodrow Wilson
#32. I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway
Leonora Carrington
#33. I never deprive myself. If I'm craving something once a week, then Ill go have it Ice cream or whatever, I just eat the foods I like.
Kate Upton
#34. Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Doug Larson
#35. 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.
Thomas Browne
#36. I think we should celebrate food and not deprive ourselves - I've changed my lifestyle, and I'm much healthier now, but that doesn't mean I never indulge!
Sara Ramirez
#37. Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all men. For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me.
George Washington
#38. Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#39. The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
Thom Yorke
#40. We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Anita Moorjani
#41. The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.
Francois Guizot
#42. It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
Benjamin Franklin
#43. Modern science shows that some of the mentally incompetent people would become more incompetent if you deprive them of sleep. How does it affect us?
Boris Zubry
#44. I gave him a mocking smile. "Come on, Jack. Don't deprive me of the pleasure of watching you donate a DNA sample. I'll even pay for it."
"That offer might interest me," he said, "if it involved anything more exciting than a buccal swab."
-Ella & Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#45. The attraction here is based on man's need to conquer and tame, but also to hoard and deprive others of the prize.
Francisco X Stork
#46. In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
#47. The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind.
Lope De Vega
#48. In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
Robert Dale Owen
#49. Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and DESIRE. If endured with the right attitude and accompanied by righteous desires, suffering and deprivation can be the agency of great growth in our spirits.
Dallin H. Oaks
#50. I'd love to go out with you, but I'd hate to deprive some village of its idiot.
Lois Greiman
#51. So life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel ourselves rich; and then come other years when time does its work and our plantation is made sparse and thin. One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive us of their shade.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#52. You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.
Nathalie Emmanuel
#53. I have said it loud and clear: Beware, men, lest women deprive you of all the leadership positions in the country.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#54. More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
Lewis H. Lapham
#55. Hmm ... now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don't pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.
Colleen Houck
#56. There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
Charles Baxter
#57. The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
Oliver Goldsmith
#58. Sometimes you have to deprive someone of the pleasure of being with you so that they can realize how much they need you in their lives ...
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#59. You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
Gore Vidal
#60. Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal goods; may it please His Divine Goodness to give us spiritual ones!
Vincent De Paul
#61. Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
Samuel Johnson
#62. There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.
Eric Shipton
#63. Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love's pre-eternal sadness.
Odysseus Elytis
#64. Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
May Sarton
#65. My happiness is not in the gift of others. I will be happy or I will not be happy. No man will supply it or deprive me of it.
David Gemmell
#66. Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.
Nhat Hanh
#67. In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job ... you are in substance saying to that man You have no right to exist.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#68. There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.
Neil Gaiman
#69. Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.
Albert Einstein
#70. It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. Being female was so hard. Always having to rearrange yourself, to pluck yourself and whittle yourself and deprive yourself and inspect yourself in order to feel comfortable in this world.
Laura Kasischke
#72. I am not closed off to anything right now. That is what I was saying about not having any more walls up. I don't want to deprive myself of any bit of life,
Kristen Stewart
#73. Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#74. To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.
Harold Bloom
#75. The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#76. O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.
Gaspara Stampa
#77. Remain independent of any source of income that will deprive you of your personal liberties.
Texas Bix Bender
#78. To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.
Charles Spurgeon
#79. That lack of value sense would deprive a person from a protective instinct.
Sunday Adelaja
#80. 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
#81. May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.
John Hampden
#82. [W]hen we speak about people based on what we think, feel, or hope rather than on what we observe or experience, we deprive them of their humanity. We have replaced what they are, in all their fluid vitality, with our own crystallised ideas, opinions, and beliefs.
Steve Hagen
#83. When we acknowledge that human beings have the right to choose, we deprive ourselves of it,
Sergei Lukyanenko
#84. If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market.
Daniel T. Griswold
#85. But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.
Plutarch
#86. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
Thomas Jefferson
#87. Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman
Kyle Cassidy
#88. Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.
Miranda Kerr
#90. I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.
Tricia Helfer
#91. When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#92. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
Mao Zedong
#93. But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.
Placido Domingo
#94. God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset.
Israelmore Ayivor
#95. The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
Tristram Stuart
#96. At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so.
Michelle Sagara West
#97. There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who read are a threat. They would be abreast of news that would incite them in ways we could not control. Yes, it's unfair to deprive them, but there's a greater good here that must be protected.
Sue Monk Kidd
#98. It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
Thomas More
#100. My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.
Nina Dobrev
