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2088 Allowed quotes by 1659 unique authors

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?… — Harry Crews
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could.… — Waldo Salt
But you're not really allowed to complain about any of this, You're just supposed to be grateful. And obviously-I get it. You're lucky and you… — Robert Pattinson
The special effects team designed everything, which basically allowed me to stand on a green box and look and stay relatively expressionless and all these… — Robert Pattinson
It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be… — Emma Thompson
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be… — Stanley Ellin
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to earth consciously to… — Spencer W. Kimball
Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then… — Robert Adams
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed… — Peter Singer
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,… — Henry David Thoreau
Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent. — Kim Fowley
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — James Joyce
Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every one, the rashness… — Pope Pius IV
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers,… — Unknown Author
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to… — Olof Palme
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development. — Glenn Ford
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on… — Michael Crichton
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population… — David Attenborough
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated… — Adolf Hitler
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
Being safe is about being seen and heard and allowed to be who you are and to speak your truth. — Rachel Naomi Remen
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.… — Thomas Merton
If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would… — Soren Kierkegaard

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