Permit Quotes

614 quotes by 503 authors

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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
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
Science does not permit exceptions. — Claude Bernard
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. — Luc de Clapiers
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
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. — Jean Rostand
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
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
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
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
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
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
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
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
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
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
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
The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids. — Aristotle

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