Grants Quotes
642 Grants quotes by 516 unique authors
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
— Daniel Webster
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I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS.…
— Montel Williams
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would…
— Fay Wray
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Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
— Stefan Zweig
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We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His…
— Henry B. Eyring
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I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
— Saint Augustine
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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
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Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who…
— John Irving
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half…
— Robert Frost
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Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then…
— Francesca Lia Block
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to…
— J D Salinger
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Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I…
— Elie Wiesel
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I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved…
— Graham Greene
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Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that,…
— Walker Percy
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We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their…
— Emile M. Cioran
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But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes…
— Michel Faber
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Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not…
— Ludwig Borne
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Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful,…
— Alberto Manguel
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You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll…
— Ayn Rand
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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice,…
— J D Salinger
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