Permitting Quotes

53 quotes by 50 authors

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not… — Thucydides
Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at… — John F. Kennedy
You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want. — Vernon Howard
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. — Earl Warren
Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. — Isabel Paterson
We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version… — Louis Menand
I believe the two biggest mistakes made by the Founders were giving Federal judges life-time appointments and permitting them to be confirmed without the agreement… — John Jay Hooker
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and… — Taylor Caldwell
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the… — Jane Austen
In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in… — Daniel Pipes
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation -… — Rush Limbaugh
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. — Richard Schickel
I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty. — John Wooden
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… — Bill Bryson
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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