Permits Quotes

215 quotes by 189 authors

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. — Jean Rostand
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
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
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
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that… — Richard Sibbes
The law often permits what honor prohibits. — Bernard-Joseph Saurin
Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to… — Philip Neri
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of… — Antonin Scalia
The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and… — Justus von Liebig
To venture into space we must be strong-willed and determined. We must be fully committed to its exploration and discovery; space permits no half measures… — Henry Joy McCracken
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Urbain Le Verrier
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which… — Eugene Wigner
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him with… — Erich Fromm
Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. — Napoleon Hill
If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the… — Peter R. Orszag

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