#permission

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#anyone #artist #been #else #given

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. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

#civilian #down #during #ended #finally

Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#because #coming #enforce #illegal #immigration

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it? ↗

— William Temple

#create #creation #did #does #evil

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#difficult #first #front #getting #given

My son gave me the permission to accept my success. ↗

— Gary Burghoff

#gave #me #permission #son #success

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished. ↗

— Scott Glenn

#cosmic #day #days #film #finished

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

— Patricia Schroeder

#copy #copyright #full #make #permission

There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar. ↗

— Bob Richards

#ray-pelletier #men

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

#permission #sisters #tryst #men