Top 100 Ask Permission Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ask Permission

#1. I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

Kim Kardashian

#2. You don't have to ask permission to take responsibility.

Ed Catmull

#3. Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Sonia Johnson

#4. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

Ricky Martin

#6. You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

Pablo Neruda

#9. Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.

Paulo Coelho

#10. I've learned it's always easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.

Dan Morrison

#11. Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#12. Love didn't ask permission. It wasn't sensible or logical. It did as it wished, and damn the consequences

Inara Scott

#13. Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.

Stephen Graham Jones

#14. I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Doris Roberts

#15. Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission.

Sam Shepard

#16. I never said I would be helpful. I said I would ask permission before stabbing you.

Chelsea Fine

#17. Rocinante felt the desire to pleasure himself with the ladies, and as soon as he picked up their scent he abandoned his natural ways and customs, did not ask permission of his owner, broke into a brisk little trot, and went off to communicate his need to them.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#18. My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer ... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me. -Lillian Bowman

Lisa Kleypas

#19. If you ask permission from enough people, eventually you will find someone to say, "NO!

Ron Howson

#20. Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

Drake

#21. She supposed the lake was part of her dowry, now. Michael would have to ask permission to fish there. He would have to ask her husband permission to fish there. The idea would be laughable if it weren't so ... wrong.

Sarah MacLean

#22. After a few minutes, Molly came partway up the short ladder to the bridge and stopped. "Do I need to ask permission to come up there or something?"
"Why would you?" I asked.
She considered. "It's what they do on Star Trek?

Jim Butcher

#23. How many Christians of the free world visit communist countries and other nations where Christians are persecuted but never ask permission to visit a jail and encourage their brothers and sisters in pain?

Richard Wurmbrand

#24. My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#25. It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

Grace Murray Hopper

#26. A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

Ann Rinaldi

#27. The heart doesn't ask permission. It is singularly unconcerned with the qualifications of those it chooses to love. It mocks the intellect, it subjugates reason, and it holds hostage the will to survive.

Connie Brockway

#28. Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Joseph Sobran

#29. She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#30. When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

George O'Neil

#31. So what building are we breaking into? Give me all the information you've got and I'll hunt down the rest. By the way, when are we doing this?"
I glanced up. "Tonight."
Tonight? Oh, boy ... Miracles 'R' Us. I assume that we're not going to go and ask permission for this.

Kat Richardson

#32. If this really were your last day, you'd want to spend it with someone, or doing something, you love. Don't ask permission. Don't wait until next week. Just go out there and get it.

Linda Gray

#33. Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.

Gayle Rubin

#34. Again I ask permission to be blunt." "Ambassador Abumwe, at this point I cannot imagine you being otherwise.

John Scalzi

#35. Listen buddy, I'm not saying we have to ask permission, but we will be dealing with my kind now and my pack and it is proper protocol to let them know we are coming.

Bryce Evans

#36. In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

Thomas Mars

#37. I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

Christopher Paolini

#38. There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Travis Kalanick

#39. Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform.

Winifred Holtby

#40. Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

Gary Larson

#41. We drive in silence until I need an answer, "What did he say to you at the elevator?" I look straight ahead when I ask.
"He thanked me for being there for you, even as a boy, when he could not protect you himself. He told me that I had his permission to love you.

Tara Brown

#42. A lion does not ask for permission to rule the jungle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#43. I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

Michael Keaton

#44. The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

Alain De Botton

#45. I don't need your permission to search your locker. The headmaster's tone drew my attention back in his direction. This, I inferred from the rise in volume, was supposed to be the voice of authority. If you didn't need my permission, I thought, then why did you ask for it?

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#46. The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

Richard Carmona

#47. As the old saying goes, Don't ask for permission to sit on George Clooney's lap, beg for forgiveness once you do.

Amy Poehler

#48. No, Mr. Swift's mind doesn't work that way, any more than my father's does. They're men of business. Predators. If Mr. Swift wanted me, he wouldn't stop to ask for my permission any more than a lion would stop and politely ask an antelope if he would mind being eaten for lunch.

Lisa Kleypas

#49. Lauren: "Can I ask you a question?"
Angie: "Generally that's a question one should say no to. Often hell no.

Kristin Hannah

#50. It doesn't hurt to ask Actually, it does hurt. It does hurt to ask the wrong way, to ask without preparation, to ask without permission. It hurts because you never get another chance to ask right.

Seth Godin

#51. Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

Amy Jo Martin

#52. Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.

Bobbi Brown

#53. Kid ... I must ask you to please refrain from reorganizing the contents of my book without my permission ... ' Noah
'Hmph. If you plan on keeping me locked up in this book, then you can at least keep the thing properly organized.' Death the Kid

Atsushi Ohkubo

#54. It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

Lora Leigh

#55. Your heart will never ask your permission to love.

Kelly Quindlen

#56. Never ask for permission to smile.

Sam Killermann

#57. As long as you know that the permission to ask does not include the right to get an answer.

Pawan Mishra

#58. When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.

Tim Berners-Lee

#59. I shouldn't have to ask for your permission for me to put you in my lie!

Kevin Hart

#60. Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#61. When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Steven Johnson

#62. It's a lot easier to ask a woman's forgiveness than her permission.

Dennis Lehane

#63. [I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.

Mary Doria Russell

#64. I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

Graham Nash

#65. It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#66. ...we tear down the places where birds live, and put up places where people live, or places where people work to earn the money to pay for the places they live. We don't ask the birds for permission, nor do they complain about it. To a bird there is no tearing down or putting up.

John Porcellino

#67. It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
- Brom

Christopher Paolini

#68. Better to ask forgiveness than permission and to answer their shenanigans with even better shenanigans.

Kevin Hearne

#69. Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."

Rita Zahara

#70. Arcadia," Lon's voice said from my phone. "Who is this?" I teased.
"You can't take my son on a date." "I didn't ask him. He asked me." "He stole my cell and called without permission." "Sounds like a personal problem to me." A low growling noise came out of the phone.

Jenn Bennett

#71. Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission

John Marsden

#72. What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it's disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn't ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.

Sharon Salzberg

#73. Mrs. Martin," he started, "I would like to ask your permission to court your daughter.

Nely Cab

#74. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

Cormac McCarthy

#75. It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

#76. Don't ask for anyone's permission to follow your dreams

Jared Leto

#77. These 'free' applications ask for permission to read your emails, your text messages, listen to your phone calls, record video from your phone. Why else would someone spend millions developing an application which they then give away? Kind-hearted, maybe? Get real.

John McAfee

#78. The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.

Robert Jordan

#79. It was here one brilliant November midnight that Edward wrote a formal letter to Violet and Geoffrey Ponting declaring his ambition to marry their daughter, and did not quite ask their permission so much as confidently expected their approval.

Ian McEwan

#80. You never ask for permission, you just apologize later.

James S.A. Corey

#81. Ask forgiveness, not permission.

Kallypso Masters

#82. If I become king, do I have to ask your guards and your ladies permission each time I want to touch you in my marriage bed?"
Her eyes blazed. "When you become my king, Finnikin, you can touch me whenever you want. Wherever you want.

Melina Marchetta

#83. It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership

Janna Cachola

#84. Be ... suspicious ... of all those who employ the term 'we' or 'us' without your permission. This is [a] form of surreptitious conscription ... Always ask who this 'we' is; as often as not it's an attempt to smuggle tribalism through the customs.

Christopher Hitchens

#85. If you run away from your marriage, I, myself, will take permission from our mother Mary, go to Amadioha and ask him to strike you dead, and after that come back to our mother most merciful.

S.A. David

#86. Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

Emily Horner

#87. And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

Voltaire

#88. It's about your mom."
"She's not mad at your again, is she?"
"No." I set the drill aside. ""In fact, I wanted to ask you for your permission to court your mom."
"You're taking her to court?

Lisa Kessler

#89. When I need to see the president, I make a request directly to his scheduler. I don't have to ask anybody's permission to see the president except the president. Some weeks, I see him multiple times. Some weeks, I don't see him at all.

John Holdren

#90. It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

#91. Pigpen is one of those men we stand solid for. He fought in Afghanistan. Served several terms in the Army as a Ranger. He won't ask anyone for permission to exercise his God-given rights.

Katie McGarry

#92. One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.

Rachel Holmes

#93. It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Rebecca Stead

#94. I can tell you that I believe - that the human heart's mysterious ability to love others is never wrong. Your heart will never ask your permission to love. It's going to love whomever it was made to love, and the best thing you can do is follow it.

Kelly Quindlen