Consenting Quotes (page 5)

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• marriage
• imagination
• doubt

You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?”(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!” “Augustus,” announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!” “By his... Georgette Heyer

• family love
• sister
• love

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. Franz Kafka

• mindfulness
• sometimes
• hard

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. Norman Douglas

• decision
• constitute
• presidency

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. Charles Grassley

• powerful
• power
• dominate

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. Robert Frost

• government
• definition
• reason

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. Jonathan Swift

• age
• dumb
• getting married

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married. John Entwistle

• change
• civility
• subjectivity

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Will Durant

• medical
• medications
• informed consent

Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion. Bob McDonnell

• canned
• once
• things

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. Howard Hughes

• people
• today
• government

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent. Robert McChesney

• rock
• hips
• now

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock. Rock Hudson

• silence
• giving
• consented

Your silence gives consent. Plato

• silence
• giving
• gives

I shall assume that your silence gives consent. Plato

• women
• lost
• path

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. Henry Mayhew