Do You Permit It Quotes

#1. Do you permit it?" Enjolras

Victor Hugo

#2. It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.

John Cassian

#3. Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

Joe Maddon

#4. I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

Alan Lightman

#5. My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#6. I am personally open - after all that has happened and after ten years in that probationary status where all they have is a permit, I personally am open to allowing people to apply for a green card.

Marco Rubio

#7. They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

John Milton

#8. It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

Wayne Teasdale

#9. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. I will never again permit myself to forget that isolation is the first step to defeat.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. I Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; j he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Anonymous

#12. In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

Donella Meadows

#13. I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Mike Rutherford

#14. It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business.

David Prosser Jr.

#16. Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. If I can't get a permit to carry a gun, then I'll drag it along behind me. Do you need a permit for that too?

Kalle Paatalo

#18. You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

Margaret Atwood

#19. The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

Emanuel Lasker

#20. In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Gunter Grass

#21. The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.

Christo

#22. I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy

Walt Whitman

#23. The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#24. The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

Henri Matisse

#25. The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.

Bobby Scott

#26. I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised.

Dean Koontz

#27. Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.

Theodore Roosevelt

#28. Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.

William Irwin Thompson

#29. While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
[Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]

Ovid

#30. No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

Max Delbruck

#31. One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

Marie Corelli

#32. We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

Gerald R. Ford

#33. But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me? What others did was their responsibility, for which they would answer when the judgment trumpet sounded.

James Baldwin

#34. Several prominent Saudis have told me that King Fahd at the time was nearing a decision to permit women to drive but was forced to back off by the furious public reaction

Thomas W. Lippman

#35. Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles De Secondat

#36. As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Alan Moore

#37. At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

William Styron

#38. Paine and Joel Barlow attempted to change Jefferson's mind, urging him to settle thrifty German immigrants in the new lands and to permit black families to travel from other states to acquire their own land there, but the sugar interest triumphed,

Christopher Hitchens