#allowed

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. ↗

— William Dampier

#apt #everything #fortune #good #hardly

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#allowed #any #binds #broken #chains

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline. ↗

— Bob Graham

#cold #cold war #decline #during #gathered

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#also #being #circus #fear #films

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#allowed #any #buy #in my opinion #man

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#fuehrer #give #give me #had #i

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#allowed #attempt #capitalism #corrupt #democracy

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#allowed #anything #call #coaches #ever

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#become #becoming #capone #city #crime