Permissively Quotes & Sayings

It will make her stronger."
"She was strong enough! — Melina Marchetta

Values come to you by what is spoken about around you. — Sunday Adelaja

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. — C.S. Lewis

It lies in the power of man, either permissively to hasten, or actively to shorten, but not to lengthen or extend the limits of his natural life. He only (if any) hath the art to lengthen out his taper that puts it to the best advantage. — Francis Quarles

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers. — Mika.

You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?"
I didn't do anything"
Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot"
-Chloe & Derek- — Kelley Armstrong

peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the extreme of delicacy, or better of pride, in which like wild animals they bristle and lash out at the slightest displeasure. Thus no matter how great the throng and press of their bodies, they live like wild beasts in a deep solitude of spirit and will, scarcely any two being able to agree since each follows his own pleasure and caprice. — Giambattista Vico

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man's soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and says: This is the cause! — Leo Tolstoy