Famous quotes containing the word permitted:
“In the slug
And snarl of music, under cover of
A few permitted movements, you suggest
A whole consenting language....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“If you address a ghost as “Thing!”
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is permitted by the King
To drop all formal parleying—
And then you’re sure to catch it!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)