Grants Quotes - Page 19

• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  Anna Chancellor

  Funeral, Four, Well Known

  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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• I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.

  Mandy Moore

  Play, Long, Actors

  Source: movieweb.com

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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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• Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.

  Mira Grant

  Pseudonyms

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
  and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

  Ovid

  Cheating, Joy, Made

  Ovid (1929). “Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid”

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• Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.

  Robert G. Picard

  Media, Foundation, Cost

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• But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
  Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
  An age that melts with unperceived decay,
  And glides in modest Innocence away

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Decay, Innocence

  Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (1981). “Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

  Debbie Stabenow

  College, Needs, Cost

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• As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Self, Has Beens

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is to find that your entire Ramadan with all of its quran recitation, fasting, taraweeh prayers, laylatul qadr, etc. went completely to waste because your pride stopped you from saying “I'm sorry”. With that being said, I'm sorry if I've written, said, or done anything to offend you. Please find it in your heart to forgive and make dua that Allah grants me guidance and sincerity.

  Omar Suleiman

  Hurt, Sorry, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jun 14, 2015

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• It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

  Julius Caesar

  Punishment, Long, May

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• Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Men, Errors, Practice

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). “Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong, Teaching, Acceptance

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.3972, e-artnow

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• Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.

  Tintoretto

  Heaven, World, Paradise

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• A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

  Jose Rizal

  Children, School, Effort

  Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire (1912). “The reign of greed: a complete English version of El Filibusterismo from the Spanish”

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• As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Law, Voting

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.43

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• Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wall, Truth, Men

  1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).

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• God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Fire, German History

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• The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

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• It's no go the picture palace, it's no go the stadium,
  It's no go the country cot with a pot of pink geraniums.
  It's no go the Government grants, it's no go the elections,
  Sit on your arse for fifty years and hang your hat on a pension.

  Louis MacNeice

  Country, Government, Years

  'Bagpipe Music' (1938)

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• Yugoslavia is, with Iran, the only country which under difficult, not to say agonising, circumstances stood up to Joseph Stalin. It was not easy to unite ethnic groups or to modernize a country like Yugoslavia, and it must be acknowledged that Marshal Tito achieved something extraordinary. May God grant that his successors be as capable as he.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Iran, Yugoslavia

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, pp. 146-147, 1980.

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• And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

  Alan Watts

  Love Is, Ideas, Two

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• Does anybody find it creepy how many Grant robots have been on the show? Is it just me or he like trying to clone himself and make a little army?

  Kari Byron

  Army, Creepy, Trying

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