Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 308 authors

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us. — Franz Werfel
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land… — Jared Diamond
In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue â€˜ethnicâ€™ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either Hutu (85%) of Tutsi (14%)… — Philip Gourevitch
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to… — Andrew Jackson
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if… — Adolf Loos
I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted… — Thomas Eakins
It is natural that people do not want to be involved with us too much. There is no problem down to the smallest egotistical longing… — Reinhard Heydrich
Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really… — Thomas Frank
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially… — Anatoly Chubais
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you… — E T A Hoffmann
It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for… — Slade Gorton
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the… — Anne Bronte
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship. — Chaim Potok
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon… — Abbe Pierre
We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon… — Paul Broca
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees… — Natan Sharansky
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. — Hernando Cortes
As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the… — Hannah Hurnard
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and… — Umar
I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run… — Edie Sedgwick

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