Grants Quotes - Page 25

• And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

  Plato

  Party, Winning, Office

  Plato (1935). “The Republic”

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• Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Hatred, Advice

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.131

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• We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.

  Henry James

  Artist, Ideas, Criticism

  Henry James, Roger Gard (1987). “The critical muse: selected literary criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Kings, Children, Promise

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• It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

  Johann David Wyss

  Ideas, Giving, Heaven

  Johann David Wyss, Isabelle de Montolieu (1871). “The Swiss Family Robinson: Or, Adventures in a Desert Island. Six Coloured Engravings on Steel”, p.246

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• The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Exercise, Men

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• The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand in mine was, Pete, let us have another game of brag, to recall the days that were so pleasant. Great God! I thought to myself, how my heart swells out to such magnanimous touch of humanity. Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

  James Longstreet

  Brother, War, Heart

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• I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Frustration, Form

  Neale Donald Walsch (2000). “Questions and Answers on Conversations with God”, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake. All praise to thee, my God, this night for all the blessings of the light. Keep me, oh keep me, King of Kings, beneath Thine own almighty wings. Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

  Thomas Ken

  Life, Running, Morning

  "Awake my soul, and with the sun" (hymn) (1695)

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• This is my prayer for all of us — 'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Bridges, Giving

  "Lord, Increase Our Faith". Ensign magazine, pp. 52-53, November 1987.

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• We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

  John Ashcroft

  Government, Scary, Tradition

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• I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Education, Sex

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Our universe grants every soul a twin- a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit - And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love.

  Julie Dillon

  Soulmate, Reflection, Destiny

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• As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems.

  Pope Francis

  Government, Long, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium Of the Holy Father Francis". Apostolic Exhortation, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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• Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Reality, Justice

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.842, Penguin

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• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Pain, Failure

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Delphi Collected Works of Rabindranath Tagore (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

  Jules Verne

  Heaven, May, Buried

  Jules Verne (2011). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.57, ABDO

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• Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the time that life grants you, as long as you walk without demanding what can't be granted. If you go too fast you will grow tired and give up half way there. If you go too slow, night will fall and you will be lost. Enjoy the scenery, take delight in the cool spring water and the fruit that nature generously offers you, but keep on walking.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Spring

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• Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.

  Annie Lennox

  Country, Health, Mean

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• There is no freedom that I would grant to any man that I would refuse to woman, and there is no freedom that I would refuse to either man or woman except the freedom to invade ... whoever has the ballot has the freedom to invade, and whoever wants the ballot wants the freedom to invade. Give woman equality with man, by all means; but do it by taking power from man, not giving it to woman.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Mean, Men, Giving

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• I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Prayer, Responsibility, Men

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• Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine

  Ursula Hegi

  Believe, Imagine, Wiser

  Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.

  Bryan Adams

  Pride, Way, Pennies

  "Bryan Adams on learning to deal with fame". Interview with Shirley Halperin, uk.reuters.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.

  Frank Beddor

  Children, Population, Lucky

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• Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Animal, Years

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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