Permit Quotes
614 quotes by 499 authors
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To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.
— Max De Pree
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A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write…
— Alice Steinbach
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It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock,…
— Alice Walker
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The essence nature of the Brahmin is an urge to know the truth...the true Brahmin pursues truth at all costs and will not permit considerations…
— Robert S. de Ropp
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They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting…
— John Milton
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Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should…
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our…
— Charles Colson
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The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism".…
— Ron Paul
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we…
— Jack Abbott
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If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation…
— Roberto Bolano
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I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the…
— Neil Gaiman
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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were…
— Democritus
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
— Unknown Author
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I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
— Pope Leo I
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Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy…
— Seth Godin
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In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.
— Billy Graham
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