Top 100 Quotes About Granting
#1. But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.
Ron Paul
#2. When King asked Adam to make three wishes, he wished that whatever was granting the wishes would not exist.
Anonymous
#3. The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life ... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.
Neale Donald Walsch
#4. After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.
Ric Keller
#5. I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#6. Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
James Madison
#7. If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.
Theresa May
#8. You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything. Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.
Carrie Vaughn
#9. I have had several offers to make the book into a film. I don't know if the message could be accurately transmitted, and so I have been somewhat hesitant in granting film rights.
Frederick Lenz
#10. The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.
John Green
#11. At times God will delay granting you relief in order to draw you closer to himself. He might want to teach you just how helpless you really are and how all-sufficient he really is. Sometimes God will allow you to suffer for a season to test and strengthen your faith.
Joe Thorn
#12. Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?
J. Robert King
#13. I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#14. I wanted ... " I said.
"I know," he said. "I know. Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory." That made me smile a little.
John Green
#15. I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Susan Sontag
#16. Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition.
Tom Regan
#17. Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
Jodi Picoult
#18. Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
Timothy Keller
#19. Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#20. Prayer is the connection that opens the door for all of God's blessings to be manifested in our lives. It is the process of granting permission for Heaven to show up with the finished works of Jesus.
Paul Silway
#21. How fickle it is, memory - preferring some days to others, granting first a blue sky, offering next the sound of laughter, swelling our remembrances until a largeness seeps into the grain of things and memory itself becomes billowed and flapping.
Sonja Livingston
#22. I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#23. Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
George Orwell
#24. Because -' she looked up at Bill and gave him a smile that lit up her face, granting him a sudden flash of her true beauty - 'love never die, Mister Bill. It never die.
Lucinda Riley
#25. Aparrently, life is not a wish-granting factory. - Augustus Waters
John Green
#26. Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.
Barack Obama
#27. Apparently, the world is not a
wish-granting factory.
John Green
#28. That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
Ike Skelton
#29. A portion of the electorate will always levitate toward the scratch and sniff candidate, granting them superficial appeasement without any substance.
T. Rafael Cimino
#30. From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.
Pete Du Pont
#31. It was God's fault, for taunting her as He had. For not granting her what He had granted so many other women. For dangling before her, tantalizingly, what He knew would give her the greatest happiness, then pulling it away.
Khaled Hosseini
#32. When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree on that that's a more toxic and contentious issue, granting full amnesty.
Herbert Spencer
#33. We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
Peter T. King
#34. Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.
Dean Martin
#35. Oh shit, you had to be bloody careful when you invoked God; He could amuse Himself by granting what you'd prayed for ...
Ariana Franklin
#36. Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
Lucas Papademos
#37. I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#38. Normal life? Nothing about this is normal, Novice. I'm Death, not a Genie. I don't go granting wishes unless absolutely necessary." He levels his face to mine. "You do remember your family's souls, don't you?
Cecilia Robert
#39. The World is not a wish granting factory"- The Fault In Our Stars
John Green
#40. Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
Criss Jami
#41. The very existence of a world carries with it the proof of a world-maker, as the table guarantees the pre-existence of the carpenter. Granting
Arthur Conan Doyle
#42. For granting we have sinned, and that the offence
Of man is made against Omnipotence,
Some price that bears proportion must be paid,
And infinite with infinite be weighed.
John Dryden
#43. The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.
Charles Spurgeon
#44. Granting amnesty to people who broke the law penalizes the millions of people who are waiting to come to America legally.
Phil Gramm
#45. But I was learning forgiveness didn't have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.
Heather Topham Wood
#46. We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.
Theodore Zeldin
#47. What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?
Cathy Guisewite
#48. I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
#49. The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness - preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
Billy Graham
#50. When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#51. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
Patrick Rothfuss
#52. His insane gamble of granting Mollie breathing room with Colonel Lowe had finally paid off. Mollie had had the chance to know both men, and she had made her choice. She'd come back to him, and she wasn't leaving again.
Elizabeth Camden
#53. Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.
Adolf Hitler
#54. I pictured myself saying in a court of law, "Well, Your Honor, there was
this evil sorcerer's apprentice and a flesh-eating, power-granting demon
he summoned from a primordial dimension ... "
Even I couldn't see a way to make that script work.
Laura Resnick
#55. Life is not a wish granting factory.
John Green
#56. The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
David Levithan
#57. that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it,
John Green
#58. Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
Timothy Keller
#59. ( ... ) replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.
Louisa May Alcott
#60. I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.
David Brooks
#61. In 1770, a British law was proposed to Parliament granting grounds for annulment if a bride used cosmetics prior to her wedding day.
- Marjorie Dorfman, The History of Make-up
Julie Klassen
#62. Old habits never die. And when you've once been in the business of granting wishes, the impulse never quite leaves you
Joanne Harris
#63. Massachusetts, like Queen Elizabeth, encouraged salt making through the granting of monopolies to those who showed the skill to produce salt cheaply. The colony granted Samuel Winslow a ten-year monopoly to employ his ideas on salt producing, which is considered the first patent issued in America.
Mark Kurlansky
#64. We are very much afflicted now by tedious, fruitless controversy. Very often, perhaps typically, the most important aspect of a controversy is not the area of disagreement but the hardening of agreement, the tacit granting on all sides of assumptions that ought not to be granted on any side.
Marilynne Robinson
#65. If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
Ludwig Von Mises
#66. I think we both like Crazy Anna a little more than regular Anna. It's like magic - while I was trying on the bathing suit last month, it rubbed against my butt and unleashed the Absolute Best Summer Ever Bikini Genie, granting all my wishes.
Sarah Ockler
#67. Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
Teresa Of Avila
#68. I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
Patricia Highsmith
#69. I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we're afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states
which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.
Dahlia Lithwick
#71. The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn't care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.
Jeff VanderMeer
#72. When the number of children goes over one, God becomes miserly in granting intelligence; he takes it from the living child and gives it to the child to be born.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise.
Truth Devour
#74. Thank God, she thought fervently ... thank God for not granting certain wishes, and for guiding her to a far sweeter fate.
Lisa Kleypas
#75. Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.
Kevin Mitnick
#76. You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that's wrong for our country, bad for our future.
Marco Rubio
#77. No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.
Eliezer Berkovits
#78. There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
Agnes Repplier
#79. By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed seriatim, the law takes care to preserve in the legislative body a nucleus of men already accustomed to public business, and capable of exercising a salutary influence upon the junior members.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#80. Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time ... There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.
Adolf Hitler
#81. It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
John Wycliffe
#82. Real love - our love of God and our love of each other - must involve a choice. But with the granting of that choice comes the possibility that people would choose instead to hate.
Lee Strobel
#83. Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.
Walter E. Williams
#84. We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.
Stephen Jay Gould
#86. If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.
Imam Ahmad
#87. Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart
#88. He had won. He could release her at any time. But her lips... those soft, sweet petals were parting tremulously at the touch of his tongue, and she was granting him entry to the warmth of her mouth. He thrust boldly inside, wanting but one taste of her. Only one.
Shelly Thacker
#89. The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Walter Scott
#90. I mean, do you believe in God or what? " "Not the name-brand God they serve here." Tim said. "That old guy with the beard, granting wishes out of the clouds to whoever says the most rosaries. That's bullshit. I believe in everything.
Chris Fuhrman
#91. The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#92. by listening with full attention, by acknowledging his feelings with a word, by giving a name to his feelings, and by granting him his wishes in fantasy.
Adele Faber
#93. The Senate came one vote short of granting approval to build the Keystone pipeline. Democrats say the pipeline could accelerate global warming. Then people who've been outside today said, 'Sounds good to me. Let's accelerate that global warming.'
Jimmy Fallon
#95. The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Andrew Jackson
#96. Everything would be spoiled if we were to reserve Christ for the church while granting the world only some law, Christian though it may be.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#97. In recognition of his service, Rome named Herod "King of the Jews", granting him a kingdom that would ultimately grow larger than that of King Solomon
Reza Aslan
#98. Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on!
Benjamin
#99. In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights.
Julius Nyerere
#100. Perhaps if I'd arrived donned in a pair of trousers, with my hair in a tangled mess - a style you apparently prefer - you'd have shown me the courtesy of granting an interview before sending me away.
Karen Witemeyer
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