Grants Quotes - Page 18

• One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Dubai, People, Innovation

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• Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Jesus, Humble

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• Love grants in a moment
  What toil can hardly achieve in an age.
  [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe
  Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Age, Toil

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Jupiter, Complaining, Should

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• But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
  [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

  Juvenal

  Wrath, Heaven, Ira

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• God grant me grace my prayers to say:
  O God! preserve my mother dear,
  In strength and health for many a year;
  And O! preserve my father too,
  And may I pay him reverence due;
  And may I my best thoughts employ
  To be my parents' hope and joy;
  And O! preserve my brothers both
  From evil doings, and from sloth,
  And may we always love each other,
  Our friends, our father, and our mother,
  And still, O Lord, to me impart
  An innocent and grateful heart,
  That after my last sleep I may
  Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Brother, Prayer

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1880). “The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”

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• The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

  William McKinley

  Country, Strong, Army

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• Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

  Joseph Hall

  Believe, Giving, Looks

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• I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.

  Twyla Tharp

  Years, Pages, Firsts

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Divine Guidance, Government, Organization

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.719, Library of America

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• liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

  Ruth Benedict

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.398, Transaction Publishers

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

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Selfish, Satisfaction, Reason

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.205, Library of America

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• For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

  Thucydides

  Powerful, Justice, Pressure

  Thucydides (1881). “Thucydides Translated Into English”

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• From the king
  To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
  And you must grant, the slavery is less
  To study to please one, than many.

  Philip Massinger

  Kings, Slavery, Study

  Philip Massinger (1830). “The plays of Philip Massinger”, p.259

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• To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

  James Madison

  Government, Land, House

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• The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,
  The child is born by many a pang endear'd
  And now the mother's ear has caught his cry;
  O grant the cherub to her asking eye!
  He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd
  He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.

  Samuel Rogers

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted,
  When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored,
  When the last fire is out and the last guest departed
  Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

  John Masefield

  Death, Prayer, Fire

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
  [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

  Statius

  Noble, Mercy

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• Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?

  Owen Feltham

  Beautiful, Women, Believe

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• [On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

  Mary Ruefle

  Time, Might, Distraction

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books

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• We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would
  never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed,
  or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But
  a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer
  believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals,
  but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Cancer, Believe, Thinking

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• You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there's been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.

  Janette Rallison

  Girl, Teenage, Twilight

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• I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Running, Winning, Awards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Humility, Self, Miracle

  "Sheldon Whitehouse: God Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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