Allowance Quotes

“We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come.”

“We always stay on the optimal path, when we practice the power of allowance.Allow everything to happen the way it does.Respond to everything with love and understanding.”

“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.”

“We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not “we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and collecting nickels and dimes from the washing machine because she never got allowance, that kind of poor… poor enough to be nostalgic about poverty. So, when my mom and dad took me here for my tenth birthday, it was a really big deal. They’d saved up for two months to take me to the photography store and they bought me a Kodak Instamatic film camera… I really miss those days, because we were still a real family back then… this mall doesn’t even have a film photography store anymore, just a cell phone and digital camera store, it’s depressing…”

“If we adopted Jack," I quip, "we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance”

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”

“When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.”

“Rockface sheer and imposing, emerges from the sea, reminding us nature makes no allowances.”