Grants Quotes - Page 6

• Grant me profits only, grant me the joy of profit made,
  and see to it that I enjoy cheating the buyer!

  Ovid

  Cheating, Joy, Made

  Ovid (1929). “Fastorum libri sex: the Fasti of Ovid”

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• Love grants in a moment
  What toil can hardly achieve in an age.
  [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe
  Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Age, Toil

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• Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Jupiter, Complaining, Should

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• To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong, Teaching, Acceptance

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “The Suffragettes – Complete History Of the Movement (6 Volumes in One Edition): The Battle for the Equal Rights: 1848-1922 (Including Letters, Newspaper Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.3972, e-artnow

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• A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.

  William Shenstone

  Real, Sprung Up, Armor

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.36

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• But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
  [Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]

  Juvenal

  Wrath, Heaven, Ira

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• But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
  Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
  An age that melts with unperceived decay,
  And glides in modest Innocence away

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Decay, Innocence

  Samuel Johnson, Niall Rudd (1981). “Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Witty, Style, Execution

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3363, Delphi Classics

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• Even non-commercial media rely on transferring cost to users through licence fees, donations from listeners, viewers, or readers, or grants from companies and foundations that have wrestled their funds from the public in some form of earlier commercial activity.

  Robert G. Picard

  Media, Foundation, Cost

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• As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Self, Has Beens

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

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• The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Sunshine, Autumn

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.329

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• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  Peter Temple

  Hero, Writing, Personality

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• For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

  Thucydides

  Powerful, Justice, Pressure

  Thucydides (1881). “Thucydides Translated Into English”

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• The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Uplifting, Art, Bored

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

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• There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vocabulary, Cosmos

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• We say that one gets cancer, or a cold, or kidney disease. One would
  never think to say that one is cancer. But we say that one is depressed,
  or bipolar, or schizophrenic. A disease of the body is a condition. But
  a disease of the mind, we think, is a state of being. We no longer
  believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals,
  but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either.

  Paul Gruchow

  Cancer, Believe, Thinking

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• My God! my time is in Thine hands. Should it please Thee to lengthen my life, and complete, as Thou hast begun, the work of blanching my locks, grant me grace to wear them as a crown of unsullied honor.

  Christian Scriver

  Hands, Grace, Honor

  Christian Scriver (1860). “Gotthold's Emblems: Or, Invisible Things Understood by Things that are Made”, p.222

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• the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Together, World, Demand

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1911). “The Sick-a-bed Lady: And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-day, The Runaway Road, Something that Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of the City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business”

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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• Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,
  'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:
  And grant the bad what happiness they would,
  One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

  Alexander Pope

  Vices, Want, Virtue

  Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.51

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• There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

  Toby Jones

  Eye, Talking, People

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

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• I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Running, Winning, Awards

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

  Anna Chancellor

  Funeral, Four, Well Known

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is to find that your entire Ramadan with all of its quran recitation, fasting, taraweeh prayers, laylatul qadr, etc. went completely to waste because your pride stopped you from saying “I'm sorry”. With that being said, I'm sorry if I've written, said, or done anything to offend you. Please find it in your heart to forgive and make dua that Allah grants me guidance and sincerity.

  Omar Suleiman

  Hurt, Sorry, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jun 14, 2015

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• How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Humility, Self, Miracle

  "Sheldon Whitehouse: God Won’t Save Us From Climate Catastrophe" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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