Permitted Quotes

367 quotes by 308 authors

I have not permitted myself to be ignorant of any martial art that exists. Why? Such ignorance is a disgrace to someone who follows the… — Mas Oyama
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted. — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre. — Dorothy Day
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,… — Samuel Johnson
The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive… — Hannes Alfven
PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe],… — Ambrose Bierce
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would… — Hideki Tojo
And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation. — Pope Leo I
Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live… — Pope Francis
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an… — Ambrose Bierce
Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since. — Dagobert D. Runes
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are… — Lysander Spooner
None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth. — Mark Twain
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful. — Mark Twain
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired… — Neil Postman
Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings. — William J. Clinton
Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first… — Carl Rogers
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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