Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology).
Sometimes people may anger you, but realise that they are stealing your energy. Someone can only steal your energy if YOU allow them to.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
We can't allow, in my perception, our traditions, which in the Bible are really looked down upon, to stop, literally, the potential of the gospel reaching the youth of America.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.
Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.
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.
Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.
'Sex' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.
...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.
