The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.
The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing
The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
God won't permit temptation beyond your strength. It is true that temptations come to all, but God will give you the graces you need to withstand them, if you ask him to and if you are willing to cooperate with his grace. . . In God's presence, consider: Do I put up a fight when temptations beset me, or do I give up quickly and surrender myself to them without a struggle? Do I rely on God's grace to conquer temptations, or am I conquered by them?
I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.
God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of. . . shall we say, power.
We have to permit go with the everyday living we had prepared so as to have the lifetime that's watching for us
We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.