Top 1073 Ulysses's Grant Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.

Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

Hugh Grant is fantastic in bed. He always has been.

Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

In my mind, I'm not scary at all. I'm channeling my inner Cary Grant!

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

I loved sinking my head into Cary Grant's chest.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.

There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

In 'Dublinesque', Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas inverts the terms of Joyce's 'Ulysses' and tells the story of a man who, after living a hyperkinetic life like those of Odysseus and Leopold Bloom, resolves to never leave his room again and to reduce his mental activity to a minimum.

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

'Mira Grant' is actually my pseudonym. And 'Seanan' is pronounced 'SHAWN-in.'

It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.

... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.

The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.

To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

Grant that I may experience the power of Thy Word before I deliver it.

The toughest fight I've ever had was T. J. Grant.

No one can deny you or grant you anything. It all comes to you by virtue of your vibration.

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign.

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