#permit

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#building #changes #even #hundreds #improvement

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#censor #citadel #contrary #convinced #hold

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. ↗

— John Malkovich

#given #grateful #i #learn #myself

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#blessing #come #difficulty #god #great

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#appeals #because #been #case #court

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business. ↗

— John Mica

#conduct #dependent #economic #fair #joining

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us. ↗

— Arthur C. Nielsen

#business #cost #job #only #permitting

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

#decide #explanations #game #permitted #rules

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified. ↗

— Christo

#clarified #collages #detail #drawings #early