Famous quotes containing the word permitted:
“Often I am permitted to return to a meadow
as if it were a given property of the mind
that certain bounds hold against chaos,
that is a place of first permission,
everlasting omen of what is.”
—Robert Duncan (b. 1919)
“Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)