Top 1200 Asking Permission Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I learned how to break the rules without asking.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

I am asking you to believe once again in America.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

I think it is asking a lot for regulators to be perfect - because they won't be.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

A superhero represents infinite possibility. It represents the peak of aspiration and courage. And if you see yourself reflected as a superhero, you will give yourself permission to dream anything.

Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we're going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

What I do with my work is, I give women permission to be angry. Because that's our right. Because it's an emotion. Because it's been taken away from us. Because we've been silenced.

That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if you don't do it, you're permitted to. He gave a lot of writers permission to do that, to expand and push out the borders of what a rock song can contain.

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.

Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated

I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it at the time. Someone had strongly objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Bible. We didn't want to get into any further trouble with the religious critics.

I've stopped doing things that aren't clear comedy gigs - to do something that's not "comedy night," it's a difficult thing. People have to be given permission to laugh. You need to know it's comedy; otherwise you might just think I'm a man talking out loud.

The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.

Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.

I'm George Takei, and I'm straight... up asking you to vote.

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

A lot of my fans and supporters have been asking for an album.

My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and Jeffrey was screaming that he didn't want me to. You have to give yourself permission to let go of the guilt.

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

Women are asking what privileges their own breadwinning buys.

I think it's sad that we live in a world where men can steal and distribute and publish photos of women without their permission all over the Internet and even in print and make a lot of money doing so, but half naked photos that I took of myself are deemed "obscene."

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking.

There is no question we are in an era of people asking, 'Is the Robocalypse upon us?

..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them

If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can sing 60 that are immediately identifiable. Somebody once said you couldn't have a holiday without his permission.

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists] gave permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the world in which anybody can now send or receive any amount of money, with anyone else, anywhere on the planet, without having to ask permission from any bank or government.

As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.

What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

I usually don't like to annoy people in asking to work with them.

I simply didn't believe we needed a constitutional amendment to protect women's rights. I knew of only one law that was discriminatory toward women, a law in North Dakota stipulating that a wife had to have her husband's permission to make wine.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

I got invited to the White House, and I tried to sleep there overnight without permission. The Secret Service came to my house, and I had to talk to them. They legally couldn't do anything because I didn't do anything wrong, but they yelled at me like a principal.

Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.