Grants Quotes · Page 5

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK…

— Anonymous

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

— Anonymous

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

— Laurence Tribe

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

— Denny Rehberg

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

— Herbert Marcuse

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

— John Fund

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

— Jim Morrison

The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm…

— Frederick Lenz

When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally…

— Mary Astell

Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue…

— Jean de La Fontaine

I've worked with Jack Warner and Jimmy Stewart - and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Johnny Depp twice. I've had dinners with…

— Peter Guber

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may…

— Vincent de Paul

President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in…

— Heber J. Grant

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and…

— James Dillet Freeman

At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt.…

— Diadochos of Photiki

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening…

— Jillian Michaels

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd…

— Megan Hart

We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths, inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that. The Cosmic…

— Zoe Helene

Is there another way? Of course there is. There is a way based on simple moral principles: Everyone keeps his own money.…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Brad Wright, who created Grant MacLaren, had me in mind. We'd actually worked together 20 years ago. He wrote an episode of…

— Eric McCormack

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal…

— Liza Mundy

You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of…

— Frederick The Great

Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship,…

— Suze Orman

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be…

— Timothy Shay Arthur

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

— Herman Melville

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.

— Bill Milkowski

The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.

— Anonymous

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

— Anonymous

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

— Shelby Foote

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

— Megan Hart

I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms.

— George Crabbe

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

— Anonymous

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

— Dennis Rodman

If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

— David Livingstone

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

— Newt Gingrich

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

— Marisha Pessl

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

— Robert Genn