Quotes About Permission

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

When we forgive evil in the world, we are giving evil permission to grow and spread.

In an interstellar society where the Church ruled all but absolutely, news awaited not only independent confirmation but official permission to exist.

Me tornei autorizado a existir apenas onde não sou visto.

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He wanted her the rest of his life, and failing that, he wanted permission to walk along beside her while she lived it.

Did they want what I wanted? Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to thrive; to someday, sometime, finally earn the luxury, the permission to … stop, to stop all of this, to relax, and forget?

People get addicted to love. Or just to having someone around. So many times Mr. Mehta gave me grief. I had to get his permission for every little thing: read a book, go to the cinema, even phone my parents. A lot of times he'd say no just because he could. Yet when he died, I wept and wept.

The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes.

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

100,000 members of the Falange were still permitted to carry guns.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

In Mumbai, Marathi schools are shutting down and Urdu schools are increasing. The parties governing the BMC are giving permission to these schools. If Urdu schools are rising, you know whose numbers are increasing and who is coming to the city.

Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents' agreement to the match, not the approval of church or state, was what confirmed its validity.

Those who hold power know very well the difference between a right and a permission … A right in a strict sense of the term gives access to the exercise of a power, at the expense of another power. A permission doesn't diminish the power of the one who gives it; it doesn't augment the power of the one who gets it. It makes his life easier, which is not nothing.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

If Congress grants permission, I would put armed forces in the streets.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.