#permits

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#cheers #criticism #democracy #permits #two

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#liberty #permits #right

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. ↗

— Andre Gide

#condition #except #go #good #greatest

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns. ↗

— Suze Orman

#god #going #permits #remember #street

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#endure #god #him #lack #man

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#fair #flooding #giving #illegal #illegal immigrants

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#headlines #heart #law #letter #love

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. ↗

— Marilyn French

#art #different #emotions #events #fix