Top 1200 General Grant Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The surgeon general is responsible for sharing scientifically-based information with the public so that they can improve their health. But I will say personally that my goal as surgeon general is to help build a culture of prevention in America so that we are a nation that is as good at preventing illness as we are at treating it.

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.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

Sometimes on a film you just become taken with the fact that, all right this is as rough as it gets, but I'm going to support my general and I'm going to do the very best I can for him because he's a good general and I like him.

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

I'm going to wait for the confirmation hearings. I'm familiar with General [John Francis ] Kelly because of my work on the Armed Services Committee. I think he is a fine general and I want to make sure that he has a handle on some of the complicated issues that are contained within Homeland Security.

Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

I was struck by the fact that none of the senators, basically, asked General [James] Mattis, "Well, General, how is it that we haven't won?" We haven't won anywhere, 'winning' in the sense of conclusively achieving our political objectives, however you might want to define those objectives.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a particular idea is linked to a character, it's like an engine moves it. Then you have a novel underway.

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph.

Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?

If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.

If you saw General [James] Mattis and General [John] Kelly and Senator [Jeff] Sessions and Mr.[Rex] Tillerson and Congressman [Mike] Pompeo testify, you thought, look, this is a reasonable more than a reasonable, I would say, cabinet.

When you have a general election result you don't like, you don't have another general election.

Grace, by definition, is something that God is not required to grant. He owes a fallen world no mercy.

The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

We want Telangana state with Hyderabad as its capital. We demand the Centre to grant the statehood for the region.

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

General managers - I like to talk about the 'golden gut': general managers that not only can have a sense for the players that are going to perform beyond what people expect and get team chemistry right, but they also have to be able to make trades.

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does.

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

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

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.