Permit famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.
-- Alan Lightman -
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.
-- Allyson Felix -
Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again.
-- Ann Demeulemeester -
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
-- Aristotle -
The law often permits what honor prohibits.
-- Bernard-Joseph Saurin -
The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is.
-- Bill Clark -
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
-- C. S. Lewis -
Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.
-- Christopher Fry -
I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
-- Daniel Berrigan -
I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
-- David O. Selznick -
Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.
-- Dean Karnazes -
Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
-- Dean Koontz -
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked
-- Donella Meadows -
I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.
-- E. L. Doctorow -
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
-- Florence Nightingale -
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
-- George B. McClellan -
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
-- George W. Romney -
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.
-- Georges Courteline -
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
-- Haile Selassie -
I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.
-- Henry Hazlitt -
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
-- Horace Porter -
Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.
-- Howard Coble -
Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
-- James Hansen -
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
-- John F. Kennedy -
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
-- John Rawls -
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
-- John Yoo -
God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
It should've been illegal for a man to walk around like that without some sort of permit.
-- Julie James -
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
-- Margaret Atwood -
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.
-- Mark Strand -
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.
-- Max Lucado -
The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.
-- Mike Murdock -
Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.
-- Napoleon Hill -
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
-- Napoleon Hill -
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
Never complain about what you permit to be.
-- Orrin Woodward -
The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.
-- Ovid -
If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed
-- Paulo Freire -
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
-- Robert Schumann -
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
-- Saint Augustine -
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.
-- Viola Spolin -
I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.
-- Marion Bartoli -
I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.
-- Nita Ambani -
Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.
-- Ring Lardner, Jr. -
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.
-- Robert Payne -
Never permit failure to become a habit.
-- William Frederick Book
