#license

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#act #among #board #commercial #criteria

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#actor #avoiding #become #becoming #being

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

#famous #famous people #i #license #life

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal. ↗

— Pete Rose

#having #license #like #living #playing

To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license. ↗

— Robert Casey

#america #does #establish #general #general welfare

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#liberty #license #like #right #you

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#books #encourage #feel #gesture #heroic

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#creator #denying #domestic #drill #economic

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton. ↗

— Nicky Hilton

#hilton #i #license #media #name