Asking Permission Quotes

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  It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Forgiveness, Peace, Apology

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• No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Men, Law

  Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).

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• It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

  Kate Brian

  Asking For Forgiveness, Easier, Asks

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• Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

  Seth Godin

  Change, Asking For Forgiveness, Made

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.70, Penguin

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• Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city, your state and federal authorities, and your wife and children.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Mean, Doctors

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• Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Might, Annoying, Train

  Amy Vanderbilt (1967). “Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette”

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• Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Nice, Thinking

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• My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

  Jung Chang

  Mother, Father, Party

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