#devote

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#art #aspire #bit #devoted #every

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#become #day #devotes #hard #himself

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it. ↗

— John McCarthy

#behalf #devoted #ideology #killed #once

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time. ↗

— Debra Messing

#devoted #husband #i #long #long time

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. ↗

— Henry Moore

#cannot #day #devote #entire #entire life

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things. ↗

— Origen

#bent #devoted #divine #god #life

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anxiety #away #certainly #children #commonly

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#brought #ceased #dealing #devoted #having

But of course, very few people are Dexter. This is generally a good thing, but in this case it came in handy to be me. Four months after reading a story in the paper about a missing boy, I read a similar story. The boys were around the same age; details like that always ring a small bell and send a Mister Rogers whisper trickling through my brain: “Hello, neighbor. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#age

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#around #baggage #being #could #devote