Top 1200 General Grant Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?

I think people just don't respect women's bodies in general, the bodies of women of color in general.

I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

The skilled workers at AM General help ensure that our troops and our allies have the best and most modernized vehicles, and AM General serves as a major economic engine for our state.

Throughout his life, General Wesley Clark has stood up to some tough opponents. He battled the Viet Cong, and went toe-to-toe with Slobodan Milosevic. But today the retired four-star general capitulated to the fiercest enemy he's ever confronted: the American voter.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the subject, study the history of the sciences. Broad knowledge of all Nature has been the possession of no naturalist except Humboldt, and general relations constituted his specialty.

My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.

Mobs in the street tearing down Ulysses S. Grant statues is a really chilling sight.

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.

On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

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.

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

The Office of Attorney General should be independent and the Office of Attorney General should have the power to investigate without the approval of the governor of the state of New York. It's absolutely critically important.

Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national security against any conceivable threat.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

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

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

The nature of the job of attorney general has changed - irrevocably. And we should never again have an attorney general, of either party, capable of expressing surprise at the role that national security issues now play in the life of the Justice Department or in the role of its chief.

To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms "common defense and general welfare" embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust.

Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

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

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

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

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.