Grants Quotes - Page 24

• With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.

  Jared Diamond

  Depressing, People, Expectations

  4 Copy quote

• I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

  Katy Perry

  Home, Labels, Amy

  8 Copy quote

• There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Ocean, Doubt, May

  9 Copy quote

• To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Past, Way, Forget

  17 Copy quote

• A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.

  William Peter Hamilton

  Owing, Newspapers, Interest

  7 Copy quote

• Teach us, Master, how to give
  All we have and are to Thee;
  Grant us, Saviour, while we live,
  Wholly, only Thine to be.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Giving, Masters, Thee

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.31

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.

  Takashi Nagai

  Suicide, War, Mean

  18 Copy quote

• All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

  Pope Urban II

  Sea, Land, Battle

  292 Copy quote

• From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

  Vito Fossella

  Broken, Needs, Firsts

  16 Copy quote

• When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Heart, Answers, Praying

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.90, Moody Publishers

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

  George Vaillant

  Years, Twenties, Dollars

  10 Copy quote

• If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

  James Burgh

  Denial, May, Favour

  James Burgh (1767). “The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ...”, p.38

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

  David Attenborough

  Government, Television, Monopoly

  8 Copy quote

• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Caring

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1995). “The Interior Castle”, Harpercollins

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  Venerable Bede

  Jesus, Forever, One Day

  Saint Bede (the Venerable) (1966). “Historia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo”

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Classroom, Monopoly, Worldview

  7 Copy quote

• Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

  John C. McGinley

  Character, Doctors, Two

  7 Copy quote

• Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

  James Lovelock

  Mistake, Dependent, Ifs

  7 Copy quote

• In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

  Eva Longoria

  College, Priorities, Pell Grants

  Eva Longoria's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  John L. Lewis

  Tired, Rights, Agony

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit.

  Spike Lee

  Principles, Finals, Cost

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

  Mindy Kaling

  Hurt, Character, Work Out

  5 Copy quote

• For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

  Tim Ferriss

  Independent, Goal, Entrepreneur

  6 Copy quote

• I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!

  Margaret Cho

  Stars, Years, Long

  4 Copy quote