#grant

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

#delay #everything #grant #impulse #servant

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#bureaus #candidate #committees #effort #favor

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#class #class background #family #i #immigrants

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#general #granted #i #interesting #interesting question

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#critically #education #grants #higher #higher education

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#entering #ferocity #grants #hearing #makes

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#flaws #granted #insecurities #into #know

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#least #let us #live #lived #long

The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#creed #democratic #democratic party #every #immigrants

Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on the island. The logical, rational answer was obvious. "Which is why the world stays messed up," Caine said under his breath. "People aren't rational." He took a few deep, steadying breaths, and prepared to die for power. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone-series #michael-grant #power #beauty