Permission Quotes - Page 19

• Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

  Regina Brett

  Summer, Stars, Lying

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• If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.

  Niecy Nash

  Moving, Giving, Ifs

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• It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

  Erma Bombeck

  Kids, Blessing, Two

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• A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Falling In Love, Persons, Asks

  Ann Rinaldi (1998). “In My Father's House: And Related Readings”, McDougal Littel

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• 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

  Life, Desire, Needs

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• Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities

  Danica Patrick

  Giving, May, Cheerleader

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• I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

  Christopher Paolini

  Forgiveness, Eragon, Daring

  "Fictional character: Brom". "Eragon", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on what?" Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ebay, Weapons, Selling

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• You owe the companies nothing. You especially don't owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.

  Banksy

  Business, Asking, World

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

  Voltaire

  Men, Sea, Giving

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• The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Nice, Ideas, Visibility

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• You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, People, President

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason... Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.

  Jane Yolen

  Memories, Past, Hair

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• Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Money, Angel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Asking, Pleasure

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.112, Macmillan

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• As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

  Margaret Cho

  Blow, Who I Am, Color

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Hurt, People

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• A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Virginia, Law

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• If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission to quit.

  Jet Li

  Giving, Training, Quitting

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• Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death.  We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours.  Only once, must we be born without our own consent.  Only once, must we die without our own permission

  Calvin Miller

  Opposites, Dying, Thrill

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• Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

  Alan Cohen

  People, Giving, Forever

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• We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Following Instructions, Needs

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• People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

  Christopher Locke

  Real, People, Stories

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• Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!

  Eric Thomas

  Dream, Needs, Pursue

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