Grants Quotes
642 Grants quotes by 516 unique authors
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Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
— William James
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no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety…
— D. H. Lawrence
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You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no…
— Ayn Rand
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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?
— Michael Buckley
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And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said…
— Lewis Carroll
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Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing…
— Jonathan Stroud
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I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me…
— Alan Alda
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God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f***…
— Stephen King
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It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a…
— William P. Young
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Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities,…
— Claudia Gray
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Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with…
— Jodi Picoult
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The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
— Milan Kundera
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What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure…
— Italo Calvino
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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force.…
— Dean Koontz
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but…
— Dave Barry
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Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but…
— Frank Beddor
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Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
— Ursula Hegi
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Some days,' I say, 'I feel like I don't belong anywhere in that world. That world out there. 'I point to Grant. 'People walk down…
— Ann M. Martin
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Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a…
— Michael Crichton
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And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came…
— Ayn Rand
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god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we…
— Megan Hart
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She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again,…
— Cassandra Clare
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