Quotes of: Permitted Keyword

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Anthony Burgess

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

Jim Sensenbrenner

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

Nguyen Cao Ky

What makes us the strongest tribe on the continent is the fact that a group that opposes these values--a group that would have mankind remain in the new dark ages--is permitted to grow, permitted to exist...and, after it becomes a violent terrorist o...

Dearly, Departed

The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for there disappears with Him all possibility of finding values in an intelligible heaven. There can no longer be any good a priori, since there is no infin...

Existentialism Is a Humanism

It will seem to many persons very inconsistent with their ideas of the dignity of a spirit that they should appear and act in the manner I have described, and shall describe further; and I have heard it objected that we cannot suppose God would permi...

The Night Side of Nature

Failures of nerve and energy are not permitted. That's what it means to be an object.

California Sorrow

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Human, All Too Human

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Hedda Sterne

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Paul Cezanne

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

Sam Levenson

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

Theodore Bikel

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Mitch Kapor

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

Sarah Churchwell

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

Michael K. Simpson

Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Frost

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

Mary Karr

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Andre Gide

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson