After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity. From LearnThat.org. [Faith Ringgold, African American painter and sculptor.]
The long centuries that have since rolled by have not subtracted one iota from the wisdom of that advice. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Empire] Reference
His "coming out party" has been gloriously trumpeted globally while locally he won't even supply one "iota" of proof to let us home folks know where he was really born. From Wordnik.com. [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference
'iota' stands for 'Jesus,' 'chi' for 'Christ,' 'theta' and 'gamma' for. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
Now, not one iota of this domestic scene was lost upon Nannie. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
Blue irises peered out of a pool of wet red, not an iota of white. From Wordnik.com. [Reaction] Reference
Even Oakland's penchant for penalties hasn't slowed it down one iota. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Why The Raiders Will Win] Reference
There is not an iota of ground upon which such an assertion can be made. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
I feel not an iota of guilt for my benefits and take great pride in my union. From Wordnik.com. [No Wonder Government Employee Unions Are Powerful] Reference
The priests have never dared to deny a single iota of those terrible revelations. From Wordnik.com. [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference
One would not detract an iota from the achievements of these gallant adventurers. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Or, more specifically, it may very well leech every iota of joy from my existence. From Wordnik.com. [Melissa Lafsky: In Defense of Having Children] Reference
He does not hold back in this book one iota and he doesn't let anyone off the hook. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Martin: Big Oil Has Replaced Big Tobacco In The Bulls Eye of America's Vitriol] Reference
He does not hold back in this book one iota, and he doesn't let anyone off the hook. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Martin: Big Oil Has Replaced Big Tobacco in the Bulls Eye of America's Vitriol] Reference
And I defy you to find one iota of “meaning” in that stuff. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 3] Reference
She was going to accomplish her mission without an iota of the trouble she had feared. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference
Still, the stubborn "master of ceremonies" would not relax an iota of his rigorous behests. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
His legacy to his children never included an iota of hatred or racism against the Japanese. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Should Parents Pull The Plug On Tv?] Reference
One: not one member of The Vatican has publicly displayed an iota of humility over this issue. From Wordnik.com. [Sinéad O'Connor: An Open Letter to the Pope] Reference
The whole audience responded to this sally with a laugh, but the speaker relented not one iota. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
It makes no iota of difference what the result of telling the truth in a particular instance may be. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
China may be late to the television age, but that hasn't dampened the drama of its arrival one iota. From Wordnik.com. [ONE BILLION COUCH POTATOES] Reference
Every man is free; that is his birthright; in Saul's case he was not asked to surrender an iota of it. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
It is hard for me to figure out how a snub by a home-improvement center can diminish Christmas one iota. From Wordnik.com. [Frankincense In Aisle Five!] Reference
But she steps onto the Senate floor with an iota of cleavage and the story is plastered across the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Am I Betraying the ‘Sisterhood’?] Reference
If there's an iota of good news from NAR -- and there isn't much more than an iota -- it concerns home prices. From Wordnik.com. [Peter G. Miller: Let's Get Back The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit] Reference
Over the years, she may have lost a bit of voice at the top of her range, but not an iota of her class or charisma. From Wordnik.com. [James Conlon Celebrates 60th Birthday With Double Dose Of Mozart At Ravinia] Reference
Society is made of inexorable metal, she thinks, for the prejudices of the neighborhood have not relaxed one iota with time. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
I always sized Steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
He must not add to it nor take away from it -- even for the sake of beauty in his picture -- one iota of the facts given him. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
All improvements have been the result of observation, there being nothing original in any one, nor an iota new under the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Lambert turned his commanding eyes upon the culprit, demanding that not one iota of that proposition be left out of his recital. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
We've deployed troops and paid with blood yet after almost a decade the color of the cloud that hangs over us hasn't budged an iota. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Santiago: A Question of National Security: Looking for Green Shoots.] Reference
It had sneaked onto me quietly, the tenderness of age abiding in me and embracing my every iota of being, and I hadn't even batted an eye at it. From Wordnik.com. [Spilling Sand] Reference
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