Quotes about allowance page 5
“Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
“we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance
Source: A Fine Balance
“Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Two Boys Kissing
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary
Source: Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot
“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”
Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates
Source: Deadhouse Gates
“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Variant: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Source: Pride And Prejudice
“One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.”
Agatha Christie book The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Source: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist
Source: Simply Magic
“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Source: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Source: Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934) Hungarian American psychologist
Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Variant: Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
Source: Mockingjay
Muriel Spark book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Source: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
“Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Rolling Stone interview (21 June 1984)
“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”
James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks
Gilda Radner (1946–1989) American comedian
Cells (1988), pg. 23, Popular's Young Discoverer Series, Discovery Channel https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mrTYvoaUlTAC&pg=PA23
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist — that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
“Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.”
Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
11 April 1942.
Disputed, Hitler's Table Talks (1941-1944) (published 1953)
Sebastian Barry book The Secret Scripture
Source: The Secret Scripture
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)
Context: To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system; thereby the oppressed become as evil as the oppressor. Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. It is a way of allowing his conscience to fall asleep. At this moment the oppressed fails to be his brother's keeper. So acquiescence-while often the easier way-is not the moral way. It is the way of the coward.
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist
Source: The God I Love
“The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped,
deserves to be whipped.”
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch book Venus in Furs
Source: Venus in Furs (1870)
Context: "And the moral of the story?" I said to Severin when I put the manuscript down on the table.
"That I was a donkey," he exclaimed without turning around, for he seemed to be embarrassed. "If only I had beaten her!"
"A curious remedy," I exclaimed, "which might answer with your peasant-women-"
"Oh, they are used to it," he replied eagerly, "but imagine the effect upon one of our delicate, nervous, hysterical ladies--"
"But the moral?"
"That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and work."
"At present we have only the choice of being hammer or anvil, and I was the kind of donkey who let a woman make a slave of him, do you understand?"
"The moral of the tale is this: whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped."
“Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
" Notebook N http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/vanWyhe_notebooks.html" (1838) page 36 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=25&itemID=CUL-DAR126.-&viewtype=text <br class="br">quoted in [Darwin's Religious Odyssey, 2002, William E., Phipps, Trinity Press International, 9781563383847, 32, http://books.google.com/books?id=0TA81BTW3dIC&pg=PA32] <br class="br">also quoted in On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection (1996) edited by Thomas F. Glick and David Kohn, page 81 <br class="br">Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements <br class="br">Source: Notebooks
“Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Burn for Me
“It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.”
Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
“What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?”
Lois Lowry book The Giver
Source: The Giver
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
As quoted in "Literary Censorship in England" in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5 (November 1913), p. 378; this has sometimes appeared on the internet in paraphrased form as "Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
1910s
Context: Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. The business of a public library is not to supply the public with the books the committee thinks good for the public, but to supply the public with the books the public wants. … Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read. But as the ratepayer is mostly a coward and a fool in these difficult matters, and the committee is quite sure that it can succeed where the Roman Catholic Church has made its index expurgatorius the laughing-stock of the world, censorship will rage until it reduces itself to absurdity; and even then the best books will be in danger still.
“Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Simon to Clary, pg. 151
Variant: Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)