Grants Quotes - Page 4

• Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Leadership, Morning

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1959). “Poetry, 1917-1959”

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• With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

  Bruce Conner

  Art, Couple, Foundation

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• In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

  Timothy West

  Art, Hands, Theatre

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• If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

  Jared Harris

  Looks, Graves, Gardener

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• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Beautiful, Art, Imagination

  Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Choices, God Love, Cases

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• Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

  George Farquhar

  Funny, Humorous, Expression

  'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3

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• You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Competition, Fields, Financial

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• Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dream, Destiny, Order

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.186, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

  Paracelsus

  Skills, Preparation, Bread

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.84, Princeton University Press

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• The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Birthday, Smell, Silence

  Impressions and Comments (1914)

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• To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Moving, His Love, Way

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.64, Ignatius Press

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• We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

  David Price

  Country, Community, Police

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• Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

  Christopher Dodd

  Important, Income, Pell Grants

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• You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Racist, Bob, Host

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• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

  Evita Peron

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

  Christopher Dodd

  Children, Full Potential, Helping

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Summer, Military, Fighting

  Dispatch from Spotsylvania (Va.) Court House, 11 May 1864.

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• I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Yankees, Two, Civil War

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

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• There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Drawing, Way, Opinion

  "A Half Century of International Problems: A Lawyer's Views". Book by Frederic René Coudert, p. 180, 1954.

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• What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!

  Alistair Begg

  People, Kind, Wonderful

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2015

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• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Success, Leadership

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• Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

  Horace

  Heaven, May, Posse

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• If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

  David Livingstone

  Humility, Resignation, Ifs

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Trying, Way

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