I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.
For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.
I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
Of course, I love football, but I'm not one of those die-hard fans that never miss a game or with rooms devoted to team colors. At the end of the day, it's just a game.
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
