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Quotes About Permission

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
Just as Tom Gau could, through the persuasive force of his personality, serve as a Tipping Point in a word-of-mouth epidemic, the people who die in highly publicized suicides-whose deaths give others permission to die-serve as the Tipping Points in suicide epidemics.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
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~ Malcolm Gladwell
When we give ourselves permission to fail..we at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.
~ Eloise Ristad
Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.
~ Mensah Oteh
I realized I am self-centered, that I'm used to thinking about me first. But I also realized that you tend to think about you second. It's as though I had permission from you to be less responsible. I'm not saying it's your fault. But you have to learn to take back, grab it when it's offered. Don't fight it. Don't get all tense thinking it's complicated. Just take it, and if you want to be polite, say thank you.
~ Amy Tan
One doesn't need a lot to be able to live. The great thing is to be free in your work. Ofcourse it's important to print or exhibit, but if that's not possible you are still left with the most important thing of all -- being able to work without asking anybody's permission.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Grace Hopper: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
~ Andrew Hunt
Could she kiss him? Would he allow her that? Was that something he could pretend was nothing? What about making love? Could she just open up her legs and pull him inside her and have him all she wanted and later give her assent that it was nothing?
~ Ann Brashares
Jake and I hung out in the living room and heard snatches of conversation. Just as she was about to hang up, Jake called out, "Can he come over?" "Excuse me," Mrs. Kuhn said into the phone. She covered the receiver and asked Jake, "You mean, now?" "Yeah!" Jake replied. Logan must have heard through her palm, because Mrs. Kuhn smiled and said, "It's all right with him." "It's all right with me, too," I added.
~ Ann M. Martin
Can we visit her tonight?" I asked. "May we?" Janine, Mom, and Dad all corrected me at once.
~ Ann M. Martin
NO FLYING EXCEPT IN THE FLYERS' COURT OR THE YARD. NO ANIMAL FRIENDS IN SCHOOL WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION. NO FLUXING WITHOUT TEACHER SUPERVISION. Today, Nory noticed a sign she had never bothered to read before. It read: DO NOT RIDE ON YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
I'm giving you permission to take care of yourself first, so you can do a better job of being generous in the long run.
~ Scott Adams
La novela es una epopeya subjetiva en la que el autor pide permiso para tratar el universo a su manera; el único problema consiste en saber si tiene o no una manera; el resto viene por añadidura.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anch'io tratto il mio cuoricino come un fanciullo malato: gli è permesso ogni capriccio. Non dirlo in giro, però: c'è gente che me ne farebbe un rimprovero.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humility is a reflection of vulnerability; it is the self giving itself permission to say, "I don't know everything.
~ John Baldoni
Therefore they escape by the shift that this is done only with God's permission, not also by his will;3 but he, openly declaring that he is the doer, repudiates that evasion. However, that men can accomplish nothing except by God's secret command, that they cannot by deliberating accomplish anything except what he has already decreed with himself and determines by his secret direction, is proved by innumerable and clear testimonies. What
~ John Calvin
Now you address me," the kingfisher said. " 'O Bird!' you say, and make your request." "O Bird!" August said, opening his hands imploringly, "Tell me this: Is it okay if we have a gas station in Meadowbrook, and sell Ford cars?" "Certainly." "What?" "Certainly!
~ John Crowley
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~ John Dickson Carr
Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
~ William Gurnall
Everything depends on only consisting of a three-letter word; Yes.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love is such an authority that doesn't require permission, even not yours.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
You may hold all the data, info, and knowledge, but without consent, you gain nothing, even having the power, you are powerless. Everything depends on the consent
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I have waited all my life for permission. I feel it growing in my breast. A war is storming and it is behind me and I am moving my forces into light.
~ Eileen Myles (author)