Permit Quotes
614 quotes by 503 authors
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own…
— Francis of Assisi
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Science does not permit exceptions.
— Claude Bernard
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
— Fred Allen
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There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
— Luc de Clapiers
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The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I…
— Nick Clegg
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
— Jean Rostand
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It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in…
— William J. Clinton
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In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for…
— William J. Clinton
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Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't…
— Jimmy Iovine
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Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.
— Joe Maddon
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed…
— Abraham Flexner
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We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
— Ronald Reagan
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A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,…
— Marcel Proust
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.
— Aristotle
Who Wrote These Permit Quotes
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