#permitted

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#chemistry #invade #make #mess #messy

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#being #communist #even #fact #having

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#bear #cannot #else #everything #evolution

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. ↗

— Patrick Campbell

#days #earliest #enjoyed #i #impediment

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

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#cancel #communication #diplomatic #during #even

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#destiny #frame #into #our #ours

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#capable #dignity #eternity #glimpse #important

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#enjoy #god #grace #hell #may

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish