Grants Quotes

• Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Being Alone

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• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Hope, Courage, Giving Up

  "The Armed Forces Prayer Book". Book edited by Daniel Alfred Poling, 1951.

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• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47

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  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

  Mathematics, Mathematical, Possession

  Letter to Farkas Bolyai, September 02, 1808.

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  Samuel Beckett

  World, Unhappiness, Comical

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Depth

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• With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Discipline, Coherence, Facts

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• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Success, Law, Political

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1869

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• I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Bad Ass

  "A History of Militarism: Romance and Realities of a Profession". Book by Alfred Vagts, p. 27., 1937.

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• Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, War, Mean

  Speech in London. "Memorial Life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant". Book edited by y Stephen Merrill Allen, p. 95, 1889.

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• A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it

  Donald M. Fraser

  Anniversary, Marriage, Believe

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• The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

  Loren Cunningham

  God, Discovery, Over You

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• The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

  Percy Ross

  Waiting, Wish, World

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• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Accountability, Vision, Done

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• So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

  Matthew Lesko

  School, Government, Starting Over

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• Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

  Horace

  Life, Everyday, Asking

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• The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

  Joe Baca

  School, Issues, Challenges

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• One must remember that the higher he climbs the spiritual ladder toward the Kingdom of Heaven, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.

  Paul Twitchell

  Spiritual, Freedom, Giving

  "All about ECK".

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• Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Men, Long

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

  Charles M. Vest

  Awards, Pell Grants, Tuition

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

  Dennis Farina

  Crazy, Mirrors, People

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• Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Crazy, History, Drunk

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• I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, Want, Rivalry

  William Tecumseh Sherman, Brooks D. Simpson, Jean Vance Berlin (1999). “Sherman's Civil War: selected correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Funny, Death, Party

  "As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death". Book by Cindy Rogers and Sharon Dardis, 2000.

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• Grant stood by me when I was crazy.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Crazy, American Civil War

  Dwight Lancelot Clarke, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry Smith Turner (1969). “William Tecumseh Sherman: Gold Rush Banker”

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