Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.

An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

So long as I'm relevant, and so long as my health permits and people still want me, I will continue.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

In a typical situation, it's going to take pretty close to a year to get your location in, get your permits, and then get open.

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

The JOBS Act will allow entrepreneurs to utilize 'crowdfunding,' which permits them to raise equity capital from a large pool of small investors.

The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.

Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.

CISPA permits, but does not require, entities that have been attacked to voluntarily share their knowledge of a cyber threat with each other and with government.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!

That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

Me and both my brothers got permits to attend Beverly because two of my uncles and my uncle's wife all taught and coached at Beverly Hills High. But I grew up in South Central.

States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

I remember when I saw 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' I wanted to go out and direct a movie right there on the streets of Manhattan. Unfortunately, you can't without permits.

If Brexit happens, there will have to be change - whether people want it or not - around work permits. It won't be freedom of movement for European players, so that landscape will change.

Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a process we'll start working on. I'd say within three to five years I'll accomplish that as well.

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