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Quotes About Permission

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
~ Lars Ulrich
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.
~ Rebecca Stead
Minutes later Emerson was taking a crack at another of his pet targets: … they call themselves World Federalists, this bunch of amateur statesmen, and they want us to give up the one thing we've got left—the right to make our own decisions about our own affairs. They think it would be fine if we had to ask permission of all the world's runts and funny-looking dimwits every time we wanted to move our furniture around a little, or even to leave it where it is.
~ Rex Stout
No sé en qué momento empezaste a darte permiso de darme por sentada -le dijo ella, siempre a cargo, con el estómago revuelto en la garganta-: no sé en qué momento te comiste el cuento de que tú eres el protagonista de esta historia
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Greene had disclosed to a sympathetic American diplomat in Brussels that while at Oxford he had been a member of the Communist Party for a period. He then repeated the disclosure to a Time magazine reporter, and a 'plastic curtain fell'. To enter the country he required the special permission of the Attorney General, a process taking three weeks, and his visits were limited to four weeks.1
~ Richard Greene
So get ready for a great adventure, the one you were really born for. If we never get to our little bit of heaven, our life does not make much sense, and we have created our own "hell." So get ready for some new freedom, some dangerous permission, some hope from nowhere, some unexpected happiness, some stumbling stones, some radical grace, and some new and pressing responsibility for yourself and for our suffering world.
~ Richard Rohr
Remember, He is giving it to us to manage, not to have. We are His bondservants, and we therefore do not have anything of our own. It is all His, and we must not spend it on ourselves unless He gives us permission.
~ Rick Joyner
Hope does not leave without being given permission.
~ Rick Riordan
I should've been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!
~ Rick Riordan
Since Thor wasn't there to creatively cuss, Sam did the honors, muttering a few comments that I doubted her grandparents would've approved of. Those are just expressions, I added hastily. In no way was my friend giving you permission to do...any of those rude and colorful things.
~ Rick Riordan
One more thing, I said because I couldn't help myself. Mallory, if your middle name is Audrey and your initials are M. A. K.. - She raised an index finger. Don't say it, Beantown. We are totally calling you Mack now. Mallory fumed. My friends in Belfast used to call me that. Constantly. That wasn't a no so I decided we had permission.
~ Rick Riordan
Police weren't like vampires, they didn't wait to be invited in.
~ Kate Atkinson
Male privilege is assuming one has the right to occupy any space or person by whatever means, with or without permission. It's a sense of entitlement that's unique to those who have been raised male in most cultures - it's notably absent in most girls and women.
~ Kate Bornstein
It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?
~ Kate Brian
We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. Go on. You sound like you're giving a five-year old permission to play with an unsuitable friend. If the shoe fits... I flipped off. Watch it or I won't marry you, he said. Truck or no truck. I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. Did he just say... Rafe began. Yes. And don't ask
~ Kelley Armstrong
Technically, you don't need the keys. As long as they're in the car, you can drive it." He paused. "I probably shouldn't have told you that.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits…
~ Kelley Armstrong
Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits…" I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck or no truck.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I'm allowed to sit in on the lessons
~ Ken Follett
Aldred was not shocked. He continued the discussion without pause. "On the other hand," he said, "your peasants are serfs, who need the permission of their lord to marry, change their way of making a living, or move to another
~ Ken Follett
You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted.
~ Ken Kesey
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
~ Tom Stoppard
Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.
~ Myles Munroe
After announcing the scheme, Abbott sought with some charm the absolution of his startled party. "Sometimes," he said, "it is better to ask forgiveness rather than permission.
~ David Marr