Permit Quotes · Page 3

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

— Mason Cooley

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

— Brigham Young

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

— Pietro Aretino

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

— Grover Norquist

It should've been illegal for a man to walk around like that without some sort of permit.

— Julie James

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

— Ring Lardner, Jr

“In the land of the living, it is only the dead who is permitted to give excuses.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

— Bainbridge Colby

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own…

— Napoleon Hill

I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

— Bahman Ghobadi

Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond…

— Theodore Dreiser

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit…

— Alan Moore

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Negative brands are the main reasons why your dreams become too hard to change shape. Negative brand can cake your dreams to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a…

— Chellie Pingree

I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a…

— James Madison

You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them…

— Herbert M. Shelton

In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and…

— Carol Tavris

[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what…

— Marie Winn

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and…

— Abraham Lincoln

As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of…

— Robertson Davies

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand…

— Sloane Crosley

Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their…

— Julie B. Beck

Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the…

— George Washington Carver

It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets…

— Judith Butler

You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course,…

— Amitav Ghosh

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a…

— Betty Friedan

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

— Andrew Dickson White

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

— Max Delbruck

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

— Rudy Giuliani

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

— Fausto Cercignani

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

— Anonymous

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

— Michael Gerber

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

— Victor Hugo