Permits Quotes

215 quotes by 189 authors

I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is… — Marvin J. Ashton
If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled… — Fred Hoyle
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid… — John Updike
Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt. — Robert H. Schuller
For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and… — Desiderius Erasmus
Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us. — Christopher Fry
For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to… — Claude Levi-Strauss
I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office,… — Anne-Marie Slaughter
I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on.… — Nik Wallenda
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition… — John Yoo
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital… — Paule Marshall
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the… — Martin Chemnitz
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because… — Charles J. Shields
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they… — Friedrich Frobel
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For… — Ambrose Bierce
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good,… — Mahatma Gandhi

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