Grants Quotes - Page 19

• Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

  Frank Herbert

  Affair, Increase, Should

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to – you wouldn't grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Kindness, Hate, Men

  "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society".

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• I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Law, Amnesty

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2013.

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• O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections." (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions).

  Brother Lawrence

  Art, Grace, Mind

  Brother Lawrence (2017). “The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of a Holy Life”, p.16, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

  Timothy Pickering

  Jesus, Omission, May

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• O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

  Andrew Lang

  Summer, Weed, Beach

  Andrew Lang “The Selected Works of Andrew Lang”, Library of Alexandria

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• I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.

  Jean Arthur

  Sinking, Chests

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• I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

  Peggy Lee

  Jesus

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• I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more fun! I think we were a successful team because we enjoyed working together tremendously, and that pleasure must have shown through onto the screen. I will always remember two compliments he made me. He said I had perfect timing in comedy and that I was the sweetest smelling actress he ever worked with.

  Irene Dunne

  Fun, Team, Successful

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.

  Homer

  Husband, Grief, Home

  Homer, Stanley Lombardo (2000). “Odyssey”, p.41, Hackett Publishing

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• The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Power, President

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.200, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Permission, Offers

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 14, 2016

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• I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lying, Book, Garden

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• Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Commitment, Names, Office

  Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.42, Penguin

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• I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

  Dan Rather

  Book, Thinking, Presidential

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• The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that’s been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Attitude, Men, Wings

  "Liberal hypocrisy on display over murder suspect's manifesto". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2013.

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• All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Expression, Bird

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

  Ayn Rand

  Love Is, Affirmation

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.514, Penguin

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• Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Perfection, Grace, Church

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves. We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror. (“The Medusa”)

  Thomas Ligotti

  Heart, Enlightenment, Medusa

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• Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

  Shelby Foote

  War, Learning Experience

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• Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Ideas, Magic

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• I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Men, Honor

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.47, Xist Publishing

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• Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more.

  Cary Grant

  Anxiety, Insecurity, May

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• Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.

  Chris Cleave

  Running, Names, Capes

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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