Permit Quotes
614 quotes by 485 authors
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Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin…
— Wallace Stegner
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But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning…
— Jack London
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Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between…
— Karen Marie Moning
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So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
— Laura Schlessinger
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Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.
— Judith McNaught
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That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,…
— Hannah Arendt
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There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six,…
— Cyril Connolly
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But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all…
— Alexander Pushkin
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But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as…
— James A. Baldwin
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You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude.…
— Thomas Paine
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We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that…
— Karen Marie Moning
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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 problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.
— Sam Harris
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I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "More than anything. I'm only half without you." "Then you are…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends…
— Maya Angelou
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It should've been illegal for a man to walk around like that without some sort of permit.
— Julie James
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Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to…
— Agatha Christie
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Past persons of Scottishness in contact with mastermind of supernatural persuasion in London, aka Agent Doom.’ Floote moved on to the third bit of paper.…
— Gail Carriger
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