Permitted

Famous quotes containing the word permitted:

    Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    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)