Quotes with allow

  • I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
  • What doesn't allow us to move forward because when we simply - and I've seen it on social media; it really, really upsets me - is to get in our corners and call names and turn our back to each other.
  • If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
  • As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
  • Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil and Augustus.
  • Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
  • A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
  • All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
  • Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
  • Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
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  • Kingsley Amis A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Alice Walker All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bart Conner Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
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  • John Barrymore Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Wayne Dyer Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Confucius When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -this is knowledge.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Marquis de Sade ''Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Walsh A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Isaac Asimov A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    Eerste wet voor robots
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Andrew Denton Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
    Andrew Denton
     
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  • Bonnie Bassler All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Samuel Johnson Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Allow motion to equal emotion.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bobby Scott And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Rosenblat As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Armstrong Williams At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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