Quotes About License

#1. Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

Philip Kerr

#2. For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

Gail Collins

#3. I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.

Joycelyn Elders

#4. If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

Robert Cailliau

#5. Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

Rose Kennedy

#6. I like the bumper sticker that reads, "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven." But that does not give us license to live below God's standard.

Billy Graham

#7. A driver's license is an uneducated man's diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft ... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

Mike Svob

#9. to tackle the problem of healthcare costs effectively, we'll need a system in which "everyone is practicing at the top of their license.

Robert Wachter

#10. This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing grave damage to the rules designed to protect the right to life and prevent extrajudicial executions.

Philip Alston

#11. My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

Jerry Uelsmann

#12. So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

Greg Graffin

#13. I nodded, but I didn't know how to tell her how wrong she was. That it's possible for a man to interpret a woman's initial permission as license to steamroll any boundary she may set after that. That once a woman says yes, it's possible a man might not give a shit when she changes her mind.

Amy Hatvany

#14. People who had previously purchased a "green" product were significantly more likely to both lie and steal than those who had purchased the conventional product. Their demonstration of ethical behavior subconsciously gave them license to act unethically when the chance arose.

William MacAskill

#15. But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it's nose into virtually every human activity.

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#16. Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Steven Spielberg

#17. Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

Jean Racine

#18. Poetic license is not a license to scribe recklessly.

C. Kennedy

#19. Truly evil people aren't given the license to linger. The fact that you've been here so long since death means you don't have any reason to fear what comes next." As

Dean Koontz

#20. Wouldn't you like to weigh what it says on your driver's license?

Sam Ewing

#21. Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He's just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it.

Kelley Armstrong

#22. What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

Errol Morris

#23. Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

John Milton

#24. My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

Craig Ferguson

#25. I hail with joy- for I am a temperance man and a friend of temperance-I hail with joy the efforts that are being made to raise wine in the country. I believe that when you have everywhere cheap, pure, unadulterated wine, you will no longer have need for either prohibitory or license laws.

Louis Agassiz

#26. One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness.

Jo Coudert

#27. Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#28. English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.

Leonard Cohen

#29. It's amazing what some scientist will do to invent something new or learn about something they don't understand. They're like psychos with a license.

Brandy Nacole

#30. I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

Noel Gallagher

#31. I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

Sam Harris

#32. I got a car when I was 16. I didn't even have a driver's license.

Casey Johnson

#33. His stomach tried to propel itself out of his throat. His mouth hinged open all by itself - the better to upchuck you with, my dear - and shot out five gods, a very slimy rock, quite a lot of nectar, some biscuits, and a chariot license plate. (No, I don't know how all that got in there.)

Rick Riordan

#34. Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

Rick Santorum

#35. You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

Jeff Foxworthy

#36. If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

Patricia Cornwell

#37. Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

Russell Lynes

#38. I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

Ellen Ochoa

#39. A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

Sam Hunt

#40. I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

Jane Levy

#41. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.

George Chapman

#42. The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#43. Well, even if she does get her way, we can keep it small. Just us. Emmett can get a clerical license off the Internet."
I giggled. " That does sound better." It wouldn't feel very official if Emmett read the vows, which was a plus. But I'd have a hard time keeping a straight face.

Stephenie Meyer

#44. The next great First Amendment battleground is just six inches high. It is a license plate bearing the Confederate flag.

Anonymous

#45. I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

George Hamilton

#46. Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Horace

#47. I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go"

Steven Wright

#48. In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.

Don Rickles

#49. There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.

Beck

#50. In short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

Charles Dickens

#51. It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

Sam Harris

#52. I failed the test. He's right. It wasn't justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.

Pierce Brown

#53. You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

Sebastian Stan

#54. Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. Grace isn't a license to sin; it's a license from sin.

Joseph Prince

#56. That's the problem with sane people. They almost always have a license to kill those they think are insane.

Cameron Jace

#57. She was a femme fatale with creative license, and she was sharpening her pen just for me.

M.K. Williams

#58. For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Michel De Montaigne

#59. The law exists for a reason. There is a dominant American culture that people used to want to preserve. That's going by the wayside, too. But if it's now okay for an illegal alien to practice law in California, then can anybody else who's broken the law get a law license? And if not, why not?

Rush Limbaugh

#60. He took off," Bilbo said. "Like you said he would. Caught a cab outside the lobby." "You get the cab number?" "And the license," Bilbo said, and told him both.

Joe Hill

#61. Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Bertrand Russell

#62. I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Will Rogers

#63. I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Robert Schwentke

#64. I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.

Hilary Kornblith

#65. I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

Gianni Versace

#66. In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

Charles Dickens

#67. I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.

Kirsten Dunst

#68. Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

John Desmond Bernal

#69. Morality is religion's license to kill.

Marty Rubin

#70. I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

Patrick Rothfuss

#71. Angelina Jolie's older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it's not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

Chelsea Handler

#72. The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.

John Wayne

#73. Many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation.

Paul A. Baran

#74. The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

Tennessee Williams

#75. The relic of the "why" of advertising seems to still persist: Since I, as the advertiser, am paying, you have to put up with whatever I dish out. But think of it this way: just because my date pays for my ticket or dinner, does that give them license to do anything they want? No.

Yoram Jerry Wind

#76. We have a license to kill and we make black look good.

Ednah Walters

#77. I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

Olivia Newton-John

#78. Artistic license sneered through the thin fabric.

Ingmar Bergman

#79. I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks.

Dave Brubeck

#80. People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#81. When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

Jen Lancaster

#82. The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

John Hersey

#83. Kindle Edition License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook

Judith Arnold

#84. I did some pretty bad things as a teenager. When I was 13, I took my friend's mom's car out for a joyride, and I actually managed to hit somebody else's car. No one was hurt, but needless to say, I didn't get behind the wheel again until I had my driver's license.

Amanda Righetti

#85. A student who has no study skills is like a person with a driving license but can't drive.

Respicius Rwehumbiza

#86. I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

Mathias Rust

#87. When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#88. If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

Victoria Justice

#89. Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.

Christi Paul

#90. In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

Peter Diamandis

#91. To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

Bill Maher

#92. I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

Charles Lamb

#93. Is the good scientist allowed artistic license?

Lily King

#94. the right to self-preservation could become egotism, and the power of generation could become license,

Fulton J. Sheen

#95. As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

John Adams

#96. Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?"
"Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said.
"Nosfer-what-who?"
Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused me of being a Nosferatu. She did not use that exact word, but close enough.

Joe Hill

#97. I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.

Neil Innes

#98. Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#99. In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Tom Hodgkinson

#100. We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

Dale Archer