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"Happy the man who, like ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family" »Joachim du Bellay
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"These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ simpson murder trial)" »Jeff Greenfield
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"Everyone wants to be Cary grant. Even I want to be Cary grant." »Cary Grant
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"Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish." »Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." »Caecilius Statius
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"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth." »William Shakespeare
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"Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about General grant's drinking problems" »Abraham Lincoln
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"General grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too." »Sherwood Anderson
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"grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart." »Martin Luther
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"O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen." »Saint Augustine
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest." »W. H. Auden
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"May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown." »Homer
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"Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life." »Jewish Prayer
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"This is something that I cherish. Once in a friend's home I came across this blessing, and took it down in shorthand ... it says something I like to live with Oh Thou, who dwellest in so many homes, possess Thyself of this. Bless the life that is sheltered here. grant that trust and peace and comfort abide within, and that love and life and usefulness may go out from this home forever." »Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
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"George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door." »Blow
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