Permitting Center Quotes & Sayings

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking. — Andrew Sullivan

Do you remember Vlek, who was such a good sheepdog that she and Jakob alone could drive a whole flock past you at the counting-post? Do you remember how Vlek grew old and sickly and could not hold down her food, and how there was no one to shoot her but you, and how you went for a walk afterwards because you did not want anyone to see you cry? — J.M. Coetzee

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Don't give up love for what might be, for if you do, you shall never know what could have been. — Darby Browne

There must be a way.
surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.
who put this brain inside of me?
it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.
it will not say
no. — Charles Bukowski

Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale. — Julia Quinn

Can a need for sanity reach insane proportions? — Michael R. Fletcher

Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and a woman, which we expect at the center of a novel. Indeed, they rather shy away from permitting in their fictions the presence of any full-fledged, mature women, giving us instead monsters of virtue or bitchery, symbols of the rejection or fear of sexuality. — Leslie A. Fiedler

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.] — Lupe Velez

The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our lives again; and we're going to agonize over every missed opportunity, over every case in which we failed to act. This knowledge is contributing to our determination to pursue every intuitive image that comes to mind, and keep it firmly in awareness. We're living life in a more deliberate way. We don't want to miss a single important event. We don't want the pain of looking back later and realizing that we blew it, that we failed to make the right decisions. — James Redfield

Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters. — J.R. Moehringer

When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football. — Hope Solo

I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it. — Kayla Mueller

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side. — Van Wyck Brooks

Hobey-Ho, let's go. — D.J. MacHale