Top 464 Letting Quotes

The idea is that the state doesn’t have rights to limit individuals’ wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

When I got with Nina Greenberg, I had been running for a few months already without a trainer. But then she gave me a program and guided me through my runs, showing me how to take care of myself and letting me know I should ice my legs and stretch – stuff I hadn’t been doing.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes – maybe even get a little hurt – and learn from them.

When the Olympics comes around, it seems like every country is against each other, but we’re all buddies out here. It’s about giving feedback to fellow riders and letting the riders feed off each other.

I hadn’t done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It’s about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.

At ‘Wicked,’ they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles.

For me, getting on a knee and praying is a very special deal for me. A very special moment. For me, it was honoring that and not letting people go out there and make a mockery of it and do a lot of different things and just kind of keeping it safe.

I was getting frustrated with America. It’s interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.

Now, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God’s way of letting you know that you’re having too good a time.

The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go.

Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

I’ve really just been free-floating and letting my path take me where it will, but you can’t continue to do that if you want to elevate.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

I’m letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don’t think anyone can compete with me.

It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

It’s all about letting the story take over.

I’ve really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.

I love driving and I love my car, so letting someone else drive my car is impossible. I drive myself everywhere.

You’re always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you’re performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

Given the state of English schools in the 1970s, a national curriculum, Ofsted, regular testing, publication of performance results, have all helped to raise standards by shining a light into the walled garden and letting parents know what is going on inside the school walls.

I’m doing a fun EP. It’s called ‘Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.’ It’s radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I’m just letting my voice be heard.

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It’s always fun to defy expectations.

We wanted to celebrate the ‘Dangerous Deception’ release by letting everyone experience the thrill of sharing a book with a reader who wouldn’t otherwise have one.

What I’m after is not living to 1,000. I’m after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

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

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that’s where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Letting non-citizens vote jeopardizes our principles as a nation. They vote only for entitlement, not for their own responsibility as citizens.

Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

I love art dealers. In some ways, they’re my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you’re friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

I don’t believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.

TIVO executives stand up and say, ‘Well, we’re not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.’ I mean, please.

I’m old enough to know that a red carpet’s just a rug, and I’ve been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.

I was upset about getting $40 haircuts, like, every month. That’s a lot of money, and so, man, that’s a lot of food. That’s a waste. No more. So I’m, like, letting it go so I have more food. My budget’s good for food now.

For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

I like pointing the camera at the actors and letting them fight. Don’t let the camera do the fighting for you, and don’t let the camera give them the adrenaline hit. Let the people in the frame do that.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

It seems like F1 is kind of going down that route, opening it up more to the public and letting them know what is going on, what you do, instead of just driving and going home.

I always do my show and say hello. And a lot of people are standing around waiting to shake my hand and say thanks for, A, letting me talk to you, and letting me feel a part of what you do.

If you’re going to do something, you should go all in and be absorbed in the process and want to do well and be OK with being really consumed by it. But at the same time, I guess the balance there lies in not letting the result define who you are as a person and your self-worth.

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

It will be good fun finding out what sport baby’s good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same.

Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.

Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I’ve learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.

Women are everywhere. We’re letting them play golf and tennis now. It’s out of control.

I am such a big fan of letting everyone know how special they are and what they contribute.

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.