#permission

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#coming #freedom #little #mean #more

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#cannot #care #creates #done #idleness

The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#committee #credibility #department #get #good

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. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#applications #authority #from time to time #gained #here

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#artist #been #bring #experience #freeing

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. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#circumstances #confident #dire #even #ever

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

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

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. ↗

— Joe Dispenza

#religion #science #religion

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#any #because #blow #deal #did