There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to…

It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was…

— Mark Doty

Fate does not seek our consent.

— Terry Goodkind

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can…

— Charles E. Wilson

“There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.”

— Amy Hatvany

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I can never consent to being dictated to.

— John Tyler

“Silence does not mean yes. No can be thought and felt but never said. It can be screamed silently on the inside. It can…

— Amy Reed

We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive, and think…

— Pope Francis

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided…

— Immanuel Kant

Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to…

— Laura Ingraham

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the…

— John Calvin

“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen…

— Anne Brontë

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman

Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as…

— Hermann Hesse

The order of things consents to virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson