Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.Quote by Franz Kafka about opinion, liberty, earth
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about insects, suffering
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.Quote by Sfanta Tereza De Avila about charm, reward, sleep, use, god, work
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.Quote by Aristotel about present
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about treasure, sublime, glory, poverty, sun, name, order
We have been permitted to turn our back on the frailty of life. I mean we live so much longer, and the constant presence of death is part of life.Quote by Katherine Dunn about life, death
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about liberty, law, power
I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.Quote by Laurent Fabius
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.Quote by Charles Montesquieu about liberty, law, rightness
It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about bad, good, good luck
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.Quote by Martin Luther about faith, things
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.Quote by Giovanni Boccaccio about haven, joy, earth
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.Quote by Georges Courteline about tolerance, life, people
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its...Quote by Frank Herbert about fear, past, death, mind, nothing, face