Allowing Quotes
One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.
Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.
What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.
In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.
You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
If I gave America any kind of hope or any kind of inspiration, I really want to say thank you for allowing me to continue doing that week after week.
I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.
I think that the key to any interview is allowing people to feel comfortable enough that they forget they're being interviewed.
It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security.
The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.
I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna, i'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.
I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.
When we say no, or when we follow our dreams or true callings - people might be disappointed in our choices. Allowing people their disappointments sets us free.
I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.
As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.
Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, that reason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.
Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.
That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles.
Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.
Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.
My plan will also help reduce the cost of child care by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes.
America has enough problems without allowing people to come in, who in many cases, or in some cases, are looking to do tremendous destruction.
In America, we've spent trillions of dollars overseas while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into total disrepair and decay.
We're not looking at citizenship. We're not looking at amnesty. We're looking at allowing people to stay here. We're working with everybody, Republican, we're working with Democrat.
I just think we've had years and years of allowing our jobs to be dissipated in America, and there's no reason for it.
The U.S. has subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.
When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.
But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back again.
Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.
Felicity grimaced in agreement. “No, you are perfectly correct. I did not realize how vital the approbation of one’s butler is in allowing for nocturnal autonomy.
When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.
...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine.
Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity
I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out in my old age.