Debar Quotes & Sayings

Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions. — Stephen Richards

And, surprisingly, it was Lymond's voice which said sharply, 'You cannot debar a human being from love! — Dorothy Dunnett

Much commented on. I have three new hoods to match, which — Philippa Gregory

Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me. — Adrian Tomine

There are three means of believing
by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter. — Blaise Pascal

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established; that he may neither violate essential principles by a desire of novelty, nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view, by a needless fear of breaking rules which no literary dictator had authority to enact. — Samuel Johnson

The Receiver was the most important Elder. Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone. — Lois Lowry

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. — Tom Allen

I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine. — Nia Long

Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to. — Rob Kardashian

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love the food, Love not the lowest end of human life. For not to irksome toil, but to delight/ He made us, and delight to reason join'd. — John Milton

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be. — Mahatma Gandhi