Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 294 authors

Now that I've won a slam, I know something very few people on earth are permitted to know. A win doesn't feel as good as… — Andre Agassi
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. — Aldous Huxley
The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available… — Joseph Campbell
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines… — Frank Herbert
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it,… — Peter Kreeft
A long-dead angel who thought to own me,â€ was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. â€œI tore out his throat. After… — Nalini Singh
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of… — Thomas Jefferson
To know all things is not permitted. — Horace
In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except that which is… — Newton N. Minow
It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses,… — Thomas Paine
The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can… — Alex Steffen
The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group… — Robert Fogel
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be… — Nikola Tesla
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study. — Hedda Sterne
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be… — Matt Salmon
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are… — Octavia Butler
The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive… — Sarah Harrison
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots. — Paramahansa Yogananda
The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are… — Helen Hayes

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