Quotes About Permission

#1. Getting permission to use a drone in Egypt was problematical.

Sarah Parcak

#2. Did you kids have fun?" she asks, and we know she's hoping we'll beg for permission to never go there again. Decca

Jennifer Niven

#3. I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.

Iman

#4. Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

Jack Canfield

#5. 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

#6. I never noticed at the time. But the fun we had making it blasts away the imperfections. Kim, Jane, the cast and crew, and I created something together that didn't exist before. Without permission. Without regrets. Hell, yeah.

Felicia Day

#7. Ginger is not distracted by the way things could be, used to be, or should be. She perceives only what is. Our reliance on the intuition of a dog is often a way to find permission to have an opinion we might otherwise be forced to call (God forbid) unsubstantiated.

Gavin De Becker

#8. Live with style and passion; don't seek the permission of others.

Debasish Mridha

#9. To get to a place where you could love anything you chose
not to need permission for desire
well now _that_ was freedom.

Toni Morrison

#10. Penitence is more attainable than permission.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.

Louise Hay

#12. We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

Christo

#13. I seem to vaguely remember a time when America had confidence. And guts. And soldiers fighting a war didn't need to be given "permission" to defend themselves from enemies trying to kill them.

Charles Foster Johnson

#14. Eleanor Roosevelt doesn't ever do anything that is going to hurt her husband. She tries things out on him. She gets permission to do things. The amazing thing, I think, historically, is that he says, "Go do it. If you can make this happen, I'll follow you."

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#15. If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

Celia Green

#16. No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.

Kevin Abdulrahman

#17. You're not asking me for advice, you're asking me for permission.

Steve Maraboli

#18. Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

Alan Cohen

#19. It was good for a while, being empty. I didn't hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.

Myra McEntire

#20. Such laws can be even more humiliating for older women. A widowed grandmother, for example, may have to rely on the permission of a grandson if he is her closest male relative.

Geraldine Brooks

#21. We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission; a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.

Joyce Rachelle

#22. 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

#23. Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?"
"Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.

Maggie Osborne

#24. You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

Banksy

#25. What would your head have been doing in Hogsmeade, Potter?" said Snape softly. "Your head is not allowed in Hogsmeade. No part of your body has permission to be in Hogsmeade.

J.K. Rowling

#26. Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

Lawrence Lessig

#27. When a woman tells you to 'Go ahead,' you do not, under any circumstances go ahead. You retreat to a safe distance and observe the situation very carefully. She is daring you to do something, not giving you permission.

L.A. Casey

#28. Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

Peter Lynch

#29. No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

Ann Landers

#30. You give yourself permission to be the person you want to be, the artist you want to be, no matter what your circumstances!

Jill Eikenberry

#31. You can't hurt me without my permission.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. This world is mine as much as it is yours, and I don't have to eat shit and say thank you anymore just to be allowed in the club. I am tearing down this framework and building a new one, and I do not need your permission to do so.

Anonymous

#33. Anyway, this time I caught her in the slow stirring of biscuits, her mind on other things, but anyhow, she was distracted enough, I was determined enough,this time I got just what I wanted. Permission to play at the Palace.

Karen Hesse

#34. You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky

Banksy

#35. Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.

Anne Wojcicki

#36. I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'

Nancy Roman

#37. 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

#38. It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Sara Zarr

#39. I, Professor S. Snape, give the Slytherin team permission to practice today on the Quidditch field owing to the need to train their new Seeker.

J.K. Rowling

#40. Mothers don't go to heaven when they die. They get special permission from God to stay around a bit longer and watch over their children, no matter what has passed between them in their brief mortal lives.

Elif Shafak

#41. To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make. Ironically,

Greg McKeown

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

Janna Cachola

#43. 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

#44. Any time evil comes into a place it is because someone give it permission.

Elise Forier Edie

#45. In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist.

Dan Simmons

#46. Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

Lars Ulrich

#47. God waits for our permission and doesn't invade our privacy as we do with others.
Everybody has free choice.

Mabel Katz

#48. In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

Gary Hamel

#49. if anyone comes into my domain without explicit permission, I'm going to impale you in a way that will give you the very best idea of what it feels like to be a corn dog.

Dannika Dark

#50. I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

Eric Lange

#51. You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

Marianne Williamson

#52. Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#53. Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

John Ruskin

#54. Wyatt didn't want it, but without his permission, his heart started beating again.
It had always beat for Tabitha.

Kele Moon

#55. In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Christo

#56. For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!

Bill Watterson

#57. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

Anne Stuart

#58. In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.

Nick Frost

#59. What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.

Steve Goodier

#60. When God saves you, he doesn't do it because you gave him permission. He did it because he's God.

Matt Chandler

#61. sometimes you need permission to remember. There are things locked up inside all of us that we don't think are affecting us but have bearing on our lives every day." "You

Chris Fabry

#62. She was waiting for more than permission, since she already had permission. She was waiting for an order.

Pauline Reage

#63. The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself ... Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

Louise J. Kaplan

#64. At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections,

Joey W. Hill

#65. Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

Emmanuel Jal

#66. When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Allan Gurganus

#67. The feeling of uselessness is no respecter of age and never asks permission, but instead corrodes people's souls, repeating over and over: 'No one is interested in you, you're nothing, the world doesn't need your presence.

Paulo Coelho

#68. Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#69. Your permission is needed for you to feel inferior to anyone,
don't ever give your permission

Steven Aitchison

#70. My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love' ... My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family ... the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

Jung Chang

#71. Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission."
"Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
"Selling them on what?"
Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

Cassandra Clare

#72. Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.

Tom Preston-Werner

#73. There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

Prince

#74. ...Bryan pumped his fist. "Stakeout! Will I be in plain clothes?" "Wear whatever you want as long as it's dark," Kirsten answered with a smile. "Permission to get snacks for my stakeout, ma'am!" Bryan said loudly as he sprung to attention.

Robin Alexander

#75. If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

#76. I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission.

Greg Rucka

#77. The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.

Thomas Piketty

#78. When Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio cracked down on illegal immigration without getting permission from Obama, they threatened to revoke his 287(g) status. When Sheriff Joe refused to balk, they filed suit against him with a frivolous civil rights claim.

Russell Pearce

#79. We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

Sheldon B. Kopp

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

Grace Hopper

#81. Stop asking permission. You don't need it. Stop waiting to be chosen. Choose yourself.

Joanna Penn

#82. You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

Haruki Murakami

#83. The sanction made the unsaid even more palpable, as if the thoughts had been waiting outside the room, and had at last been given permission to enter; now there was no denying their presence.

Neel Mukherjee

#84. I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto.

Henry L. Stimson

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. He turned his head in my direction and smiled. My stomach flipped, and not in a good way. "I didn't give you permission either."
I spread my arms wide. "Look at all the fucks I have to give. I give zero. Zero fucks.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#88. Pet, I give you permission to be as vocal as you wish, because I am going to blow your mind in a few minutes and I want to hear how much you enjoy the ride.

Kallypso Masters

#89. 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

#90. Since Thor wasn't there to creatively cuss, Sam did the honors, muttering a few comments that I doubted her grandparents would've approved of.
"Those are just expressions," I added hastily. "In no way was my friend giving you permission to do ... any of those rude and colorful things.

Rick Riordan

#91. In the immortal words of Loshain P'stane, 'If anyone reads this without permission, he will be most certainly and brutally slain. Or at the very least I'll chop off a finger or two. Or three.

Andrew Peterson

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

Grace Murray Hopper

#93. She gasped again and opened blue eyes lit with erotic mischief. "Are you trying to steal the reins from me?"
Even with his penis buried deep within her, even moments from climax, he arched an eyebrow. "You have them only by my permission.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#94. but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.

Ben Aaronovitch

#95. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.

Anonymous

#96. Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

#97. We are in charge of our own lives and how we spend our time. You should never do something you don't want to do. Lives are incredibly short. If it doesn't feel right to do something then you have permission to not do it. Who cares what other people will think?

Shannon Kaiser

#98. If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Edward Burnett Tylor

#99. I call this "permission networking". My network is not the list of how many people I know. The strength of my network is how well everyone on the list of people I know, knows each other. Most people don't know this important principle.

James Altucher

#100. Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Seth Godin