#privilege

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#just #nhl #play #privilege #thrill

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#been #colored #denied #education #feel

It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it? ↗

— Larry Hagman

#acting #airs #always #annoys #coming

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. ↗

— John Green

#hazel #heartbreak #privilege #heart

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#everybody #life #only #preserved #privileged

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#been #follow #forward-looking #generous #government

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. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#breach #committed #had #here #house

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#discontent #economic #economic growth #economists #fact

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#actor #being #great #know #learn

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. ↗

— Charles Edison

#any #elect #elected #governor #group