Quotes About Licence
Keeping pigeons without a licence is illegal as well, but we can't have people going round shooting pigeon-keepers, can we? It is the job of the RUC to enforce the law in Northern Ireland, not paramilitary groups, not vigilantes, not 'concerned citizens', it's our responsibility and ours alone," McCallister said which made me proud of him. Not quite tears-in-eyes but maybe warm-glow-in-tummy.
~ Adrian McKinty
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I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.
~ Mathias Rust
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If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky licence answer to the full The intent proposed, that licence is a rule.
~ Alexander Pope
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Les guerres sont toujours une providence pour les criminels. La violence tout à coup devient sainte ; pourvu qu'ils sachent mimer la dévotion, au moins en paroles, licence leur est donnée par un Dieu d'accomplir les infamies dont ils ont longtemps rêvé. (Partie IV Sienne, Ch. 3)
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
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In her, as an Alexandrian, licence was in a curious way a form of self-abnegation, a travesty of freedom; and if I saw her as an exemplar of the city it was not of Alexandria, or Plotinus that I was forced to think, but of the sad thirtieth child of Valentinus who fell, 'not like Lucifer by rebelling against God, but by desiring too ardently to be united to him'.*
~ Lawrence Durrell
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Our race of real freedom is only beginning; hitherto there has been freedom for a party--licence for a faction, but the great mass of the people have been in bondage.
~ Jeremy Bentham
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
~ Gary Lineker
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I would describe my driving style as calm authority, but my wife would call it demented. In my defence I've got a clean licence so probably the best way to describe it is crafty.
~ Sean Lock
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People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there are lots of different ways you could do that.
~ Grant Shapps
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Obviously, the BBC is funded by licence-payers. If you are paying for a TV licence, when you see what people are paid, then you know you're funding that.
~ Ant McPartlin
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There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.
~ Timothy West
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A Tradecrisy or Tradecracy, in a democracy, becomes apparent as a licence for the termite into justice and peace that results in, as the collapse of its concept and context veracity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
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There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.
~ Jasper Carrott
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But this is an instance where we also have to allow for some creative licence. Avatar is about a clash of cultures, the heavy handed technological human civilisation versus the gracef Navi, living lightly in their world.
~ Stephen Baxter
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Men] act in response to an outward situation, and on being presented with an opportunity to conform to a pattern. If the pattern gives licence to cruelty, so much the better. They take advantage of the licence so thoughtlessly, so thoroughly, that it becomes perfectly clear: the generality of mankind are only waiting for the chance, only waiting for outward circumstance to sanction brutality and allow them to be cruel and brutal to their heart's content.
~ Thomas Mann
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
~ Gavyn Davies
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Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.
~ Alan Bennett
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Getting small things like Visa or driving licence should be made easier as we, in financial service sectors, are dealing with financial regulations and tax constraints.
~ Chanda Kochhar
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He was abusing the imbeciles' licence to do the unthinkable.
~ Unknown
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By this these Angels from an evil sprite, Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright. Licence
~ Unknown
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