Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
Tacitus

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
Lewis Mumford

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
Clay Aiken

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.
Clay Aiken

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Milan Kundera

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Butler

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Michael Korda

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot

Therefore, if one were to consider that there was virtually no possibility of success through the US-Japan negotiations, the military and economic pressures would only force Japan into further crisis if time were allowed to pass in vain.
Hideki Tojo

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.
Shirley Knight

I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me.
Susan Smith

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.
Helena Bonham Carter

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
Sugar Ray Leonard

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
Charles Lamb