Quotes About Permission

Following along the path of her role models, Shirley knew that if she waited for permission, she'd never receive her turn.

I want to hold you, Nikki. Will you let me?

It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.

Medicine had granted permission to a fantasy that men have never abandoned, a muddled version of what Pygmalion wanted - something between a real woman and a beautiful thing.

To love someone, why do you need society's approval and permission?

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

Allow the forest to heal you," she said. "Release your pain. This land gives you permission to unburden yourself with each step.

God] oversees your world. He monitors your life. He doesn't need to check the doors; indeed, he is the door. Nothing will come your way apart from his permission.

Quién puede ordenar que algo suceda sin permiso del Señor? ¿No envía el Altísimo tanto calamidad como bien?» (Lamentaciones 3.37, 38, NTV).

Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time." I was totally confused. "In the car?" "In your life," he said.

I realized I was waiting for his permission to leave

Satan can't do a thing to us unless he first gets God's permission. Remember God allowed Satan to test Job. The only time God gives Satan permission is when God sees the tremendous potential in the thing passing through us and coming out as joy, pure joy!

Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings?

To ask another man's blessing is simply to avoid taking the responsibility.

Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much nonsense as supposing that a badger, a fox and a wolf could build a church. The way to wealth is to become a Christian bishop or a monastery's abbot and thus be imbued with heaven's permission to lie, cheat and steal your way to luxury.

We have forgotten that courage is a choice and that permission to move forward with boldness is never given by fearful masses

Folk tell their children that success lies in working hard and being thrifty, but that is as much nonsense as supposing that a badger, a fox, and a wolf could build a church. The way to wealth is to become a Christian bishop or a monastery's abbot and thus be imbued with heaven's permission to lie, cheat, and steal your way to luxury.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

I realized a few years ago that as an actress I'd signed myself up to a life of disempowerment. I'm always waiting for permission to do what I want to do.

What I do with my work is, I give women permission to be angry. Because that's our right. Because it's an emotion. Because it's been taken away from us. Because we've been silenced.

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.