As players, we were paid to do a job we loved - in my case, at the club I supported. And nothing I did could be allowed to interfere with that. The manager would not have permitted it.
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.
We were kept at work, and permitted to speak with each other only on such subjects as related to the Convent, and all in the hearing of the old nuns who sat by us.
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven.
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.
Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.
Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.
When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.
If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.
If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?
Basketball is my first love. If my health had permitted me, I would still be playing, but I am glad in retrospect that everything happened the way it did.
A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.
We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.
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.
Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.
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.
Research and development activities to support Yucca are permitted. This will ensure that we keep Congress in the driver's seat for nuclear waste policy.
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.
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
And tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smloing in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted.
That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.
Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.
Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy
Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.
We didn't create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it.
Internet service providers should not be permitted to block, throttle and unfairly favor certain content, applications, services or devices.
I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
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