Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a… — Mike Rutherford Copy Share Image
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre. So insane are we that we actually… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide… — Greta Van Susteren Copy Share Image
I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the… — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image