Letting Quotes

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
Tom Scholz

Run, Turning, Profit

It's all about letting the story take over.
Robert Stone

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Friedrich List

Alone, Everything, Nation

Letting someone down is not criminal action.
Patrick McHenry

Someone, Down, Action

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
Mary Lou Williams

Home, Mother, Night

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
Ralph Boston

Good, Down, Head

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.
Leslie Jamison

Experience, Yourself, Character

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
Roy Jenkins

Good, Great, Best

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.
Ari Graynor

Time, Down, Keep

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.
Evan Thomas

Down, Happen, Same

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.
Eugen Herrigel

Daily, Him, Through

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
Jenna Jameson

Courage, Anyone, Define

I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.
John Byng

Time, Lost, Willing

But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from.
Bob Crosby

Money, Help, Call

We knew we?d never find someone called Rock Hard, which was our ideal name, and for a while we toyed with the idea of just creating the character but never letting him get seen.
James Frank

Rock, Character, Someone

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.
Mother Maribel

Try, Often, Ourselves

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
Howell Raines

America, Wrong, Voting

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.
Francis Darwin

Power, Mind, Him

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
Steve Reich

Music, Made, Simply

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.
Gordon Cooper

Father, Place, Wonderful

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
Percy Heath

Music, Her, Everybody

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