#permitted

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#after #chance #continue #death #delighted

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#american #american citizens #call #censors #citizens

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath. ↗

— Timothy Zahn

#any #first #fork #i #into

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#because #believe #dissent #everyone #fear

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

Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#arraigned #been #charge #defense #exhibited

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comics #could #dance #law #nightclubs

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

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl. ↗

— Gary Cooper

#horse #kiss #never #permitted #were

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered