#permitted

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College. ↗

— Dora Russell

#college #could #entertainment #him #invitation

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#day #did #god #grace #greek

Because love stands above Darkness and Light. Because love is not sex or a shared faith, or "the joint maintenance of a household and the upbringing of children." Because love is also Power. And Light and Darkness, people and Others, morality and law, the Ten Commandments and the Great Treaty have damn all to do with it. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#love #unauthorized-personnel-permitted #faith

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. ↗

— John Blair

#apparently #been #calls #contact #first

That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#approaches #believed #claim #creative #degree

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. ↗

— Giovanni Boccaccio

#enjoyment #experienced #had #heaven #indeed

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#activity #children #lives #our #our lives

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#been #build #climbing #had #permitted

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. ↗

— James Boswell

#good #make #only #permitted #power