License Quotes - Page 17

• I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Locks, Research, Pottery

  6 Copy quote

• Liberty begets license.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Liberty, Begets

  12 Copy quote

• Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

  David R. Brower

  Government, Parent, Historical

  20 Copy quote

• The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

  William McKinley

  Law, Giving, Liberty

  90 Copy quote

• You break your neck, you don't know what's going to happen. I mean, it's foreign. You're in this body that you thought you were - that you were accustomed to, and now you're not. You have to figure out everything. I think the biggest thing for me was getting a license, because it gives you - it gives you your independence back.

  Mark Zupan

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  5 Copy quote

• A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

  Philip Sidney

  Tyrants

  Sir Philip Sidney, James Hain Friswell (1867). “The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc”, p.158

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Style

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.953, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I got my first car when I was 16 but I didn't have a license; it was a Ford Escape and I just let it sit there for two years because I enjoyed having my mom drive me.

  Selena Gomez

  Mom, Years, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: Selena Gomez is Done With Music (For Now...)". Interview with Dan Koday, www.latina.com. August 21, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2013

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .

  Michael Stipe

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Numbers, Car, Stories

  Interview with George Christy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Air, Draws

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.369

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Fate

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.

  Sam Harris

  Gun, Thinking, Training

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", February 1, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am for decriminalization. The significant aspect of that is that we don't force prostitutes to have to get a license to work. I think the whole idea of licensing consensual sex between adults is offensive.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never see a sign Licensed to sell spirits without thinking that it is a license to ruin souls.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Thinking, Soul, Ruins

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.329

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.

  P. D. James

  Country, Two, Decision

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.104, Faber & Faber

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.

  Leonard Cohen

  Knows

  4 Copy quote

• "Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time." I turned and met the amused eyes of Christian Ozera, a onetime annoyance who'd become a good friend. So good, in fact, that in my joyous zeal, I reached out and hugged him - something he clearly didn't expect. I was surprising everyone today. "Whoa, whoa," he said backing up, flushing. "It figures. You're the only girl who'd get all emotional about the thought of killing. I don't even want to think about what goes on when you and Ivashkov are alone."

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Christian, Eye

  "Spirit Bound". Book by Richelle Mead, May 18, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn't own you.

  Frank Zappa

  Believe, Destiny, Government

  21 Copy quote

• Freedom in the Gospel does not mean license. It means opportunity.

  Richard J. Foster

  Mean, Opportunity, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.

  George Berkeley

  Country, Men, Thinking

  George Berkeley (1732). “Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. In Seven Dialogues. Containing an Apology for the Christian Religion Against Those who are Called Free-thinkers ...”, p.216

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all guns? For the life of me, I can't. We must register our cars and be licensed to drive. In many places we must get licenses for dogs and even bicycles. Being required to register firearms and show the competence and capacity to handle them hardly seems unreasonable, hardly seems an infringement of freedom. What is it that blocks such legislation? Why do they block it? How are they able to block it?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Dog, Block, Gun

  7 Copy quote

• I go out of my way, but rather by license than carelessness.... It is the inattentive reader
  who loses my subject, not I. Some word about it will always be found off in a corner, which will not fail to be sufficient, though it takes little room.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reading, Littles, Inattention

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

  Taylor Hanson

  Giving, Car, Noses

  4 Copy quote