Permits Quotes
215 quotes by 185 authors
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Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave.
— Theodore Dreiser
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We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or…
— C.S. Lewis
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The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he…
— Frank Herbert
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To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry…
— Angela Carter
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A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his…
— Ayn Rand
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Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared…
— Laurie R. King
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Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits…
— John Updike
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Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit…
— Michel Foucault
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
— Victor Hugo
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My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the…
— Daniel Dennett
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To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It…
— Jerome Groopman
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You live your life like it’s a rare treasure to be savored. You take pleasure from the simplest of things and you never take them…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I have you – a god of mixed heritage – on an expedition that could unleash the Destroyer from her hole. Arikos, another god, on…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk,…
— Neil Gaiman
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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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