Permitting Quotes
53 quotes by 50 authors
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The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to…
— Ole Hallesby
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To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power…
— Ole Hallesby
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The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting the greater portion of our…
— George C. Marshall
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There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting!
— George Carlin
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Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The…
— Alvin Toffler
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Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
— David McCullough
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It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without attempting to control…
— Hyman Rickover
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A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and…
— Thomas McKean
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Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
— E. W. Howe
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it…
— Martha Graham
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No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
— Rudolf Carnap
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We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part…
— Enoch Powell
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Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute;…
— Gene Tunney
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We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.
— Michael K. Simpson
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Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the…
— Albert Einstein
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I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my…
— Charlotte Bronte
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It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Who Wrote These Permitting Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 53 Permitting Quotes, led by these top contributors: