#permission

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#available #back #between #british #bureaucratic

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#confusion #permission #self-acceptance #love

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#action #active #allow #choice #choices

My son gave me the permission to accept my success. ↗

— Gary Burghoff

#gave #me #permission #son #success

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#did #done #eliminate #four #good

Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished. ↗

— Scott Glenn

#cosmic #day #days #film #finished

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#few #hundred #i #i think #march

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer. ↗

— Amanda Lear

#best #given #has-been #i #i am

Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?" "Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#permission #sisters #tryst #men

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#any #because #blow #deal #did