Deprivation Quotes

• Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Children, Sleep

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

  Michelle Obama

  Real, Life Changing, Moving

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• To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

  Marya Mannes

  Ethics, Morality, Indifference

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Deprived

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• Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

  Rosalind Russell

  Beauty, Starvation, Sensory Deprivation

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• If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Children, Trying, Tough

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• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  Philip Larkin

  Poetry, Wordsworth, Daffodil

  Reply to question "Do you think people go around feeling they haven't got out of life what life has to offer?"- Required Writing (1983) p. 47

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• Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Poverty, Isolation

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• If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Philosophy, Sisterhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Overcoming

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• Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

  Alan Ladd

  Loneliness, Youth, Host

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• My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

  George J. Mitchell

  Growing Up, Parent, Needs

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• There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

  May Sarton

  Love, Real, Giving

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Reality, People, Community

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• Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

  Octavio Paz

  Expression, History, Silence

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.172, Arcade Publishing

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• Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

  Amy Dacyczyn

  Creativity, Frugality

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• Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mother, Sex, Joy

  Arnold Bennett (1935). “The journal of Arnold Bennett”, Viking Press

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• Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.

  Elie Abel

  Country, Giving, President

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• Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

  Robertson Davies

  Preparation, Stimulus, Accustomed

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

  Joyce Cary

  Mother, Children, Poor

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth.".

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Children, Believe

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• Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Challenges, Inspire

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• All beauty, resonance, integrity,
  Exist by deprivation or logic
  Of strange position.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Integrity

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages

  Rooney Mara

  Sleep, People, Different

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