Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night. — Joe Maddon Copy Share Image
Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again. — Adoniram Judson Copy Share Image
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
Biblical law permits voluntary slavery because it recognizes that some people are not able to maintain a position of independence . .… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks,… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the… — Darius Milhaud Copy Share Image
Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal… — Gaetano Mosca Copy Share Image
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the… — William Temple Copy Share Image
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction. — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable… — Frederick Tilney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence,… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must… — Walter J Chantry Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
If there is something to permit the distinction between "solid" and "liquid" phases of modernity (that is, arranging them in an order… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
