Permission Quotes - Page 14

In high school, my friend and I discovered that your cable-access station had to let you do whatever you wanted - it was like the Wild West. We made a couple weird things, like a tribute to the Zucker brothers, where we had a panel discussion about the Naked Gun movies. We wrote a script and made jokes that I'm sure were terrible and showed clips of The Naked Gun without permission.

Michael Schur

Brother, Couple, School

"An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission.

Sonia Johnson

Persons, Asks

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For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission - even an order - to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

Nancy Friday

Nice, Clothes, Order

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And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

Stephen Chbosky

Saws, Naked, Felt

Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I gave Will my permission, but I want everyone to cease looking now, Charlotte. It is over.

Cassandra Clare

Sophie, Want, Cures

Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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I told him what my dad had said. That got him laughing and as we pulled into the school parking lot, even the sight of Rafe waiting for me only made him roll his eyes. We got out. I glanced at Daniel. He sighed. "Go on." "You sound like you're giving a five-year-old permission to play with an unsuitable friend." "If the shoe fits..." I flipped him off. "Watch it or I won't marry you," he said. "Truck of no truck." I laughed and jogged over to Rafe. "Did he just say...?" Rafe began.

Kelley Armstrong

Dad, School, Eye

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You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it.

Scott Lynch

Abuse, Body, Term

Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.363, Spectra

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I gave myself permission to care, because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring, or afraid of showing that they care because it's uncool. It's uncool to have passion. It's so much easier to lose when you've shown everyone how much you don't care if you win or lose. It's much harder to lose when you show that you care, but, you'll never win, unless you also stand to lose. Don't be afraid of your passion.

Tom Hiddleston

Hard Work, Passion, Caring

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

Banksy

Dirty, Civilization, Role Models

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What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do".
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela

Motivational, Mean, Light

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Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

Bulent Ecevit

Country, Freedom, Waiting

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I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Peter Dinklage

Inspirational, Graduation, Long

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It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he holds such absolute control over it that no single event in connection with it can take place without his permission

James Petigru Boyce

Events, Connections, Doe

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Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

Drake

Humble, Advice, Asking For Forgiveness

Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author

J. Oliver Buswell

Sin, Decree, Eternal

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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

Saint Augustine

Suicide, Book, Suicidal

Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9337, Aeterna Press

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Life, the permission to know death.

Djuna Barnes

Aging, Knows

Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight, copper dirt, moon-everything belonged to the men who had the guns. . . . So you protected yourself and loved small. . . . A woman, a child, a brother-a big love like that would split you wide open in Alfred, Georgia. . . . To get to a place where you could love anything you chose-not to need permission for desire-well now, that was freedom

Toni Morrison

Brother, Children, Gun

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I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

Wynonna Judd

Hands, I've Learned, Take Me

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He stops rocking the cage. "Oh, come on, Callie. It won't be fun if we don't rock it. In fact, the more we rock it, the better it'll feel." His voice drops to a deep whisper. "We can rock it nice and slow or really, really fast."... "Do I have your permission to rock away and give you the ride of your life?" Why does it feel like he's secretly talking dirty to me? "Yeah, go ahead, rock it nice and hard," I say without thinking, then bite down on my lip as the dirty section of my brain catches up with me. Honestly, I didn't even know that side existed.

Jessica Sorensen

Fun, Nice, Dirty

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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Sara Zarr

Mean, Different, Way

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You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

Haruki Murakami

Moving, Who I Am, Imagine

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Blast Cecil!” said Eldric. “You have my permission,” I said.

Franny Billingsley

Blast, Said

Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.261, A&C Black

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If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Cesc Fabregas

Funny, Soccer, Football

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...that's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

Kristin Cashore

Memories, Disappear, Back Again

Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.201, Penguin

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