A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly… — Hugo Black 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
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the… — Robert Hunter 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
The financial calculus that Charlie and I employ would never permit our trading a good night's sleep for a shot at a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or… — Jerome Kagan 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
“Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
