License Quotes

“Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone's trying out for the same parts, I just had a very bizarre conversation with the school secretary, Megan may be throwing up her cucumber sandwiches, I've broken five of the seven deadly sins in as many hours, a demon may be inside a girl in my world religions class, Grant Brawner called me by name, my license photo looks like a dead fish, I have to drive my friends all over town in two hours when I've never even driven without Dad before, none of my birthday wishes have come true yet, and now you're here with muffins like I'm in second grade? So, no, I am not ok.”
― Wendy Mass, Leap Day

“Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“A driver’s license is an uneducated man’s diploma.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“History is dramatic license, covertly-financed with a sprinkling of gold dust from the newly-enthroned.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Get in or you’ll miss the fun.”
Fun? I slid into the seat. The engine purred to life. She floored the accelerator and the car jerked forward. She took a hard right and the tires screeched when she pulled out onto the main road. I gripped the armrest. “Who the f*ck gave you your license?”
“Watch your language, Noah, and the state of Kentucky. Why did you miss your appointment?”
I loved fast driving. Isaiah and I had drag raced all last summer. What I didn’t love was a middle-aged nut job who couldn’t steer straight. “You want to pull over and let me drive?”
Mrs. Collins laughed and cut off a tractor trailer merging onto the freeway. “You’re a riot. Focus, Noah. The appointment.” ”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“While he loved liberty, he detested the crimes that had been committed in its name. Jon J. Ingalls”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Ethics, morals and values keep freedom from devolving into license. For license is greed unleashed. And we would be quite wise to remember that greed unleashed is certain to turn and kill the thing that unleashed it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Well, there is no sin in being gay. The immorality comes from engaging in forbidden behavior. Therefore, the Christian homosexual is in the same situation as the unmarried heterosexual. He (or she) is expected to control his or her lusts and live a holy life. I know this is a tough position to take, and some will argue with it. But I stand on the authority of Scripture, and I have no license to edit it.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“It's not as if I don't know how to handle the truck now. A license is just a piece of paper”
― Terry Lynn Johnson, Ice Dogs

“You are brave, wise, and patriot if you respect others and all institutions when you are in uniform; otherwise, doesn't exist any difference, between the traitor and patriot. You are just criminal with a license.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Stephen Paddock had a pilot's license and flew small airplanes in the past. The altitudes that he flew at and whether he used oxygen above 10,000 feet in un-pressurized planes to prevent Cerebral Hypoxia from occurring is unknown. The highest altitude that he has been exposed to in an un-pressurized environment is a mystery. In 2017 he committed the worst mass shooting in modern USA history, killing many and wounding hundreds.”
― Steven Magee

“I needed to restrain the suspect’ is a police officers license to kill.”
― Steven Magee

“The suspect was resisting arrest’ is a police officers license to kill.”
― Steven Magee

“Artistic license was what she had heard it called, but in her eyes it was nothing more than artistic laziness.”
― Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice

“The restraint exhibited in exercising our liberties evidences our respect for them, our privilege to possess them, and our maturity in utilizing them. Any other use of them is something akin to thoughtless license, which just happens to be the archenemy of liberty.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some people are addicted to wedding cakes and divorces.”
― Steven Magee

“We spend our lives using our liberties to engage in the very things that enslave us. And that’s because we’ve taken license with the gift of liberty, rendered it a stepchild to the bane of our greed, and found our lives enslaved to the tyrant that we have become.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A license is what you get,
when the government steals your rights away from you,
and then sells them back.”
― Mark Edge

“For Patrick Henry, as for so many of the founders, liberty was purposeful. What some consider liberty today -- the freedom to do whatever one wishes-- Henry and the Revolutionary generation regarded as license.' -- Thomas Buckley, 'Patrick Henry, Religious Liberty, and the Search for Civic Virtue”
― Daniel L. Dreisbach, Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life