Quotes about Divest

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order. Votes: 3

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. Votes: 2

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself. Votes: 2

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. Votes: 2

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles. Votes: 2

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be. Votes: 2

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. Votes: 2

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. Votes: 2

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? Votes: 2

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. Votes: 2

Individuation is to divest the self of false wrappings. Votes: 0

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. Votes: 0

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love. Votes: 0

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. Votes: 0

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. Votes: 0

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump must divest because of his web of domestic and international business relationships that create a conflict of interest for him. Votes: 0

But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control. Votes: 0

Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It`s the only way. Votes: 0

Religion is indeed woman's panoply; no one who wishes her happiness would divest her of it; no one who appreciates her virtues would weaken her best security. Votes: 0

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization. Votes: 0

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years. Votes: 0

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force. Votes: 0

A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions. Votes: 0

To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness. Votes: 0