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Quotes About Deprived

the privacy to make a scene was something she would miss in Utopia Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [N]ow, surrounded by these watchers, she felt deprived of a basic right Ã¢â'¬Â¦ [to] behave badly if necessary, until [Preston] responded to her grief." And
~ Mary McCarthy
The escape from tyranny is often followed not by Paradise, but by a sojourn in the desert, aimless, confused and deprived.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.
~ Joseph Addison
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
~ Polybius
Feeling overwhelmed by the requirements of your diet Feeling deprived Feeling discouraged when you don't lose weight consistently or lose as much weight as you had hoped Feeling stressed by other life problems
~ Judith S. Beck
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.
~ Jules Feiffer
Making sure children from all backgrounds learn about opportunities that are usually available to a few, is an inspiring vision of what our schools can be. That means ensuring there is strong leadership and great teachers, particularly in the most deprived areas.
~ Liz Kendall
Her feminism is still only skin deep, an academic study. History, now fashionably related in the present tense, has deprived the past of its reality.
~ Fay Weldon
food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5
~ Frans de Waal
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. How offensive it can be, the natural instinctive showing off of decent happy people.
~ Iris Murdoch
I led a sheltered life until I went to college. But I wasn't deprived and I can't say I missed anything as a kid except a lot of heartaches.
~ Jackie Coogan
I can't tell you the number of times I have been underestimated, objectified or deprived of fair credit for my accomplishments based on my gender or ethnicity.
~ Eve Torres
Faulkner's characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that, for inner lives that are much more complicated and more poetic than we think.
~ Jesmyn Ward
I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.
~ David Pleat
This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
Robinson sat up and peered out at the lawn. I had no idea you were so deprived. They're the best bugs in the world because they can light up their butts. It's how they find mates
~ James Patterson
If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.
~ Jane Austen
As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of educational jargon, I'm exceptional—a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of gifted and deprived (which used to mean bright and retarded) and as soon as exceptional begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. Exceptional refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.
~ Daniel Keyes
Since these conveniences by becoming habitual had almost entirely ceased to be enjoyable, and at the same time degenerated into true needs, it became much more cruel to be deprived of them than to possess them was sweet, and men were unhappy to lose them without being happy to possess them.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it:Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God,And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven,Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
~ Christopher Marlowe
Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.
~ Jim Butcher
I had seen Star Wars a dozen times on video tape, and if anyone was so deprived as to have not watched it even once, then the country in which he lived surely needed a revolution.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
We know it to be universally true that every seed and growth, whether vegetable or animal, that the more vigorous it is the more it falls short of its proper perfection when deprived of the food, the place, the season that suits it. For evil is more opposed to the good than the not-good.
~ Plato