-
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
-
Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict.
Author:
Elizabeth Wilson
-
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
-
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
Author:
Robert Welch
-
It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
Author:
Emily Watson
-
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
Author:
Ethel Waters
-
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Author:
Voltaire
-
The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
Author:
Antonio Villaraigosa
-
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
-
Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.
Author:
Liv Ullmann
-
A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.
Author:
Charles Tupper
-
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Author:
Evangelista Torricelli
-
When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
Author:
Bill Toomey
-
Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Author:
Nahum Tate
-
Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
Author:
Amy Tan
-
I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.
Author:
Loretta Swit
-
I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.
Author:
George Stoneman
-
I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
Author:
L. Smith
-
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
Author:
John Sladek
-
In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.
Author:
John Sirica
-
I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.
Author:
Bryan Singer
-
I privilege the music over the lyrics.
Author:
Duncan Sheik
-
We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.
Author:
Silvan Shalom
-
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
Author:
Nassau Senior
-
I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
-
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Author:
Rose Schneiderman
-
Basically I am a private individual who has concerns about his country and who has resources that give me the privilege - and responsibility - to do something to help my country if I can.
Author:
Richard Scaife
-
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
Author:
May Sarton
-
I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.
Author:
Bob Saget
-
Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.
Author:
Mark Rydell
-
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
-
Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps there might be something that might incriminate me in answering.
Author:
Ethel Rosenberg
-
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
-
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
Author:
Dana Rohrabacher
-
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
Author:
John Rockefeller, Jr.
-
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Author:
Pat Roberts
-
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
Author:
Jodi Rell
-
Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.
Author:
Susan Powter
-
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Author:
Plato
-
And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.
Author:
Philippe Perrin
-
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Author:
Hesketh Pearson
-
I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.
Author:
Mandy Patinkin
-
Make health care a right, not a privilege.
Author:
Ed Pastor
-
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
Author:
Kathleen Parker
-
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Author:
Thomas Paine
-
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
Author:
J. Oppenheimer
-
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
Author:
Paul Nurse
-
CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.
Author:
Robert Novak
-
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
Author:
Claude Nicollier
-
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
Author:
George Nathan
-
It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.
Author:
Lionel Murphy
-
In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
Author:
Robin Morgan
-
I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
Author:
Jeffrey Morgan
-
Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.
Author:
Mark Mobius
-
Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.
Author:
Giovanni Mirandola
-
The true privilege of being Mayor is that I have the opportunity to be everyone's neighbor.
Author:
Thomas Menino
-
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
Author:
David McKay
-
Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.
Author:
Judith Martin
-
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Author:
Jose Marti
-
I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.
Author:
Wynton Marsalis
-
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Author:
Katherine Mansfield
-
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
Author:
Anne Macy
-
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
Author:
James Lowell
-
After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.
Author:
Jay London
-
I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface.
Author:
James Loeb
-
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
Author:
Laurel Lee
-
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
Author:
Ernest Lawrence
-
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Author:
Charles Lamb
-
I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.
Author:
Neil LaBute
-
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
-
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
-
Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
Author:
Jack Klugman
-
What a privilege it is to be an American!
Author:
Thomas King
-
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Author:
Mwai Kibaki
-
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
Author:
Aly Khan
-
You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.
Author:
Mark Kelly
-
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
Author:
Elia Kazan
-
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.
Author:
Jeffrey Katzenberg
-
Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.
Author:
Ashley Judd
-
We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'
Author:
Tim Johnson
-
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
Author:
Allen Johnson
-
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
Author:
David Hume
-
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
Author:
Jane Hull
-
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Author:
Charles Hughes
-
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
Author:
Joseph Howe
-
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
Author:
John Hope
-
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
-
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
-
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
Author:
John Hill
-
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
Author:
Arthur Helps
-
It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.
Author:
Teri Hatcher
-
Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.
Author:
Paul Harris
-
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
Author:
Brian Harris
-
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Author:
Alex Grey
-
A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
Author:
Bart Gordon
-
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
-
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
Author:
Thomas Goodwin
-
Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.
Author:
Alberto Gonzales
-
This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.
Author:
Debbie Gibson
-
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Author:
David George
-
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
Author:
Bob Geldof
-
We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.
Author:
Timothy Geithner
-
To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
Author:
David Geffen
-
It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
Author:
Bill Frist
-
I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.
Author:
Will Friedle
-
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
Author:
William Faulkner
-
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Author:
Sam Ervin
-
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
-
It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
Author:
Charles Edison
-
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.
Author:
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
-
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Author:
Peter Drucker
-
We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that.
Author:
Roma Downey
-
I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.
Author:
Byron Dorgan
-
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Author:
Diogenes
-
What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.
Author:
Morris Dees
-
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
Author:
Dizzy Dean
-
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
Author:
Alvin Dark
-
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
Author:
James Daly
-
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
Author:
John Cory
-
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.
Author:
Gordon Cooper
-
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Author:
Calvin Coolidge
-
I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.
Author:
Sean Connery
-
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
Author:
Andrew Cohen
-
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
Author:
William Clifford
-
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
Author:
Noam Chomsky
-
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
Author:
Jonathan Carroll
-
I think that every new record is a chance to... I think what it is for me is my heart and soul at that moment in time... I've always felt that just being able to make a record is a privilege.
Author:
Mary Carpenter
-
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
Author:
Benjamin Cardozo
-
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Author:
Joseph Campbell
-
Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.
Author:
Steve Buyer
-
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
Author:
Vannevar Bush
-
In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
Author:
Laura Bush
-
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
Author:
Warren Burger
-
The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
Author:
Thomas Bulfinch
-
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
Author:
Betty Buckley
-
The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure.
Author:
Hank Brown
-
But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.
Author:
Preston Brooks
-
It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
Author:
Lindy Boggs
-
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
Author:
Rod Blagojevich
-
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
-
Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
Author:
William Beveridge
-
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
-
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Author:
Jacques Barzun
-
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
Author:
Christine Baranski
-
I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
Author:
Roger Bannister
-
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
Author:
Antonio Banderas
-
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Author:
Marcus Aurelius
-
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.
Author:
Shmuel Agnon
