#permit

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

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy. ↗

— Irving Kristol

#big commitment #big idea #big thing #commitment #create

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. ↗

— John Malkovich

#given #grateful #i #learn #myself

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#blessing #come #difficulty #god #great

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#appeals #because #been #case #court

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. ↗

— Alice Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

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