#allowance

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#allowances #believable #detailed #fabric #i

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#childhood #daddy #dishes #earned #garden

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#across #allowance #because #got #grew

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#allowances #another #beyond #defects #eye

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#family #know #make #member #members

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#allowance #double #forty #him #i

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#gives #keeps #me #mom #pretty

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#art #faculties #havoc #keep #logic

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#great #laboring #made #ought #persons

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#made #make #parents #sometimes #themselves