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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative — Jay Woodman

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won't go. — Mark Twain

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

Nothing is true and everything is permitted. — Hassan-i Sabbah

What divine being had permitted this? This love? This hurt? This separation? Allah? Buddha? God? — Jameson Currier

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H.L. Mencken

Already, I felt the corruption inside me clawing for more. One taste, one touch, one kiss, one fuck. One was all I was permitted. — Pepper Winters

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

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted. — Paulo Coelho

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders. — Lawrence Lessig

Fun fact: The United Nations building in New York City is the only place in all of North America where smoking is still permitted indoors. — Douglas Coupland

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Perhaps nothing is more common than to bewail the shortness of life, unless it is to mispend the little time we are permitted to enjoy. — John Thelwall

We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought. — Ovid

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force. — Thomas Jefferson

The food comes from the ground and cant' be permitted to stay there and rot; something has to be done with it. — Shirley Jackson

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted. — Ovadia Yosef

If there's no God, all is permitted. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted — H.L. Mencken

Nothing is proved, all is permitted. — Theodore Dreiser

Even children are permitted to take more risks than the elderly. — Atul Gawande

You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz. — Anais Nin

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week. — Hattie McDaniel

When girls were permitted to wear slacks to Creelman on Saturdays in 1963, it was headline news in the Ontarion. — James G. Snell

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since. — Dagobert D. Runes

The man who is not permitted to own is owned. — George Santayana

Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know. — Jack Vance

If you are allowed to change so greatly in two years, may I not be permitted to have changed as well?" With — Sarah J. Maas

But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions. — Anthony Trollope

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. — Thomas Jefferson

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy. — John Marshall

Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to
ask questions were those who never did. — Joseph Heller

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself. — Patrick Campbell

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't. — Steven Moffat

It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider. — Julia Quinn

The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, All things are permitted. — William Lane Craig

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty. — Marie Curie

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society. — Natan Sharansky

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. — G.K. Chesterton

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

But there is a sign!" objected Primrose in semi-shock. "A sign indicating pets aren't permitted. Really, some people. — Gail Carriger

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do. — Joseph Sobran

Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star. — Carl Sagan

The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. — J.D. Salinger

If God does not exist, everything is permitted. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away. — Ernest Istook

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. — Robert Green Ingersoll

was afraid you wouldn't be permitted to leave the country for ages. — Douglas Preston

Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden. — Ayn Rand

The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them. — Dean Koontz

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. — Thomas Aquinas

We may not always know what we're wanted for, nor is it for us to enquire, but nobody is useless as long as he is permitted to live. — Mrs. Alfred Gatty

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs. — Abraham Maslow

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. — Albert Einstein

My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots. — Paramahansa Yogananda

To know all things is not permitted. — Horace

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. — Aldous Huxley

A book is the one place you're permitted to feel emotion; anywhere else you're expected to be professional.
And you ask me why I like to read... — Suzanne Steele

But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for it is not permitted that we stay. — Dante Alighieri

We didn't create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it. — John Morgridge

I believe that many a time trouble and sorrow are permitted to come to us that we may see the face of God, and be shut up to trust in Him alone. — D.L. Moody

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection. — Stanley Kunitz

You used to be brave once, sir, you used to say 'Everything is permitted,' sir, and now you've got so frightened!" Smerdyakov murmured, marveling. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing. — Ann Bausum

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself. — Agatha Christie

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body. — Alexander Hamilton

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. — John Knowles

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre. — Dorothy Day

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth. — Giovanni Boccaccio

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. — Helen Hayes

I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted. — Godfrey Reggio

If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons. — Gene Brown

Redistribution of this e-book is permitted, so long as it is distributed for free. — Andy Weir

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. — Martin Of Tours

I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either. — Henry Hyde

[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road. — John Locke

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden. — Umar

Happiness is ... the grace of being permitted to unfold ... all the spiritual powers planted within us. — Franz Werfel

I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report. — Charles A. Dana

God does not choose us for who we are, or how qualified we are, but rather for who He is and what He is permitted to do through our lives. — A.W. Tozer

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. — James Bovard

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. — George Bernard Shaw

Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. — Octave Feuillet

The broken parts of me recognise the fractures in him, even if he hasn't permitted me close enough to touch them yet. — Lara Adrian

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is more to see than we have been permitted; there are heavens unseen behind the heavens of our perception. — Patricia Storace

The only heaven permitted to me is the part-time job heaven. — Lee Eun-sang

But we must understand that emotions are unreliable and at times, tyrannical. They should never be permitted to dominate us. — James C. Dobson

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops. — Rudolf Virchow

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? — Louis De Bernieres

All is well, everything is permitted, and nothing is hateful - these are absurd judgments — Albert Camus

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can. — John Steinbeck

Death represented a failure of the medical system; it would not be permitted to upset the patients or their families. — Caitlin Doughty

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves? — Mason Cooley

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? — George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors. — Shahin Najafi

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God. — Mark Neumann