Allows Quotes
1407 quotes by 1094 authors
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The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.
— James Frey
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At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.
— Jodi Thomas
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The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could…
— Sam Harris
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This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to…
— Alyson Noel
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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering…
— John Green
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Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage…
— Marilynne Robinson
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You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
— Don DeLillo
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Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
— Alan Moore
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As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to…
— Patrick Ness
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a…
— Julia Glass
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The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come…
— Steven Pressfield
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How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his…
— Jonah Lehrer
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Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in…
— John Green
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His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success.…
— John Stott
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It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without…
— Ted Dekker
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Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that…
— Walter Isaacson
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I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person…
— Joyce Meyer
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