#permit

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#about #men #obsessed #only #permitted

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. ↗

— Horace Porter

#did #england #ignorance #new #new england

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

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. ↗

— Heinrich Schliemann

#day #did #god #grace #greek

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#good #nonviolence #permit #policy

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. ↗

— Maria Monk

#each #hearing #kept #nuns #old

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#come #destroy #did #faith #him

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#business #her #let us #nature #permit

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. ↗

— Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

#citizen #constantly #could #difference #doing

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#develop #fade #formulate #hold #imagination