Unpermissive Quotes & Sayings

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else. — Henry Ward Beecher

I like being an editor, and I know how to make a magazine. — Roberto Civita

But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through. — Thomas Carlyle

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that. — Herta Muller

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night. — Rosabetty Munoz

Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important. — Richelle E. Goodrich

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All great success is preceded by failure. — Brian Tracy

Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that hold to such values, even though those values are draconian and oppressive. In fact the more a society is devoid of morality, the more promising prudish and unpermissive doctrines look. Licentious societies create a spiritual vacuum that legalistic religions such as Islam fill. — Ali Sina