Grants Quotes · Page 8

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that…

— Robert E. Howard

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

— Marco Rubio

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that…

— James Burgh

You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents.

— Thabo Mbeki

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to…

— Philip Massinger

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

— George Eliot

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience…

— Jennifer Weiner

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Learn respect for the feeling function: Become aware of and undo some of your (improper) cultural training so that you grant the…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are…

— Frank Herbert

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the…

— Jemima Khan

I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies…

— Virginia Woolf

My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant…

— Martin Luther

the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be…

— Barack Obama

Marco Rubio was fighting to grant amnesty and not to secure the border, I was fighting to secure the border. And this…

— Ted Cruz

I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When…

— Bill Ayers

You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the…

— Anna Akhmatova

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition…

— Thomas Ligotti

There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign…

— Thomas Berry

Just listen,” she said. “You can’t kill him in cold blood.” “Whyever not?” Ye gods grant me patience. “Because he’ll be dead,”…

— Loretta Chase

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

— Steve Inskeep

You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

— P. W. Botha

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

— Pope Francis

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

— Anne Truitt

Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed…

— Ephrem the Syrian

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage…

— Pope Francis

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

— Matthew Lesko

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

— Terry Pratchett

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

— Richard Steele

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

— Jane Austen

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

— Audrey Meadows

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

— Anonymous

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

— Nancy Pearcey

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

— Ovid

Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens…

— Ranbir Kapoor