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Quotes About Let

Must, never, must avoid, must guard: the minatory commands came the eleven times (from the departing Eisenhower). In contrast, Kennedy's rhetoric on January 20 with a cascade of permissions: the word "let" rang out 14 times.
~ Rick Perlstein
That fact alone should let you know just how deep a hole I was digging. Or would that be, already have dug? Yeah, already dug. I was about halfway to China and still throwing dirt up in the air.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Why did you let the alien survive inside Kane?' The science officer scowled. 'I'm not sure you're getting through to me. Nobody "let" anything survive inside anybody. It just happened.
~ Alan Dean Foster
But how do we get the last Faceless One to go back through?" "We're going to let it chase us." "Us?" "Well, I say 'us'. I mean you." "Terrific," Valkyrie muttered.
~ Derek Landy
You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing! Depart, I say, and let us have done with you! In the name of God, go!
~ Erik Larson
DONKEYMAN: S'pose there's a gel mixed up in it someplace, ain't there? SMITTY: What makes you think so? DONKEYMAN: Always is when a man lets music bother 'im. ["The Moon of the Caribees"]
~ Eugene O'Neill
Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
tablecloth. 'He let me leave early. Stomach pains … I might have
~ Andy McNab
It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum.
~ Noah Baumbach
I really was interested in doing something for a premium channel like Showtime or HBO, just because you get to really let loose. I think they let their storylines go wherever they want, and it's really a special place to work.
~ Ben Schwartz
I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist.
~ Conor Oberst
Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.
~ Rumi
But its absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd,' she repeated. 'And what about? A man - one man.
~ Aldous Huxley
What's even more horrific than his existence," he added in disgust, "is that we in Germany let him come to power. Many of us were dead set against it, but not enough. The majority stood by and let him commit his atrocities.
~ Douglas E. Richards
I didn't know the stakes at the start. But I do know now, and now is when God decided to let me know what the stakes might be. Maybe He didn't trust me with that info earlier.
~ Douglas Wilson
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
~ Anne Sexton
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
And finally, let me just say it is a fact that not every city can dedicate resources to terrorism.
~ Vito Fossella
MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Come, come. Enough of poison. Now that my heart is full of it, let us go and find the antidote.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.
~ Judith Martin
Human happiness stems from faith in God, from human association, and from a desire to live and let live.
~ Ed Webster
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
~ Edward Albee