quotes about Granted
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
-- Adam Garcia -
If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.
-- Adam RaynerSource : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.
-- Akshay Kumar -
What we take for granted might not be here for our children.
-- Al Gore -
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It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
-- Alex Grey -
I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.
-- Allen Iverson -
Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.
-- Andre Agassi -
When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
-- Andre Breton -
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I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.
-- Anna FarisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.
-- Anna QuindlenSource : "Anna Quindlen discusses 'A Short Guide To A Happy Life'". BookBrowse interview, www.bookbrowse.com.
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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
-- Aristotle -
Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.
-- Arlene Dahl -
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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...
-- Audre Lorde -
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
-- Barbara Steele -
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
-- Bayard TaylorSource : Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162
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You never can take for granted that you have a job.
-- Benjamin Walker -
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Thank God for the day. Thank God for the morning. Won't take this here for granted; no, good Lord, I gots to get on it.
-- Big K.R.I.T.Source : Song: Wake Up, Album: 4 Eva N A Day, 2012
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.
-- Brenda Lee -
What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence.
-- Brian KolodiejchukSource : Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.177, Random House
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There's nothing you can take for granted; not a single day, not a single minute, not a single relationship.
-- Brian Stann -
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
-- Buffalo Bill -
If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?
-- C. S. Lewis -
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Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.
-- Cathy MoriartySource : Tom Evans (2012). “When Kids Could Play Outside”, p.2, WestBow Press
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You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
-- Chris Martin -
Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform.
-- Clayton Kershaw -
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I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.
-- Clyde Tombaugh -
We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.
-- Damian MarleySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I find that the kinds of music Im drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
-- Danger MouseSource : Interview with Steven Soderbergh, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.
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Its always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.
-- Darren Criss -
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Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.
-- Dean KarnazesSource : Dean Karnazes (2012). “Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss”, p.89, Rodale
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A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
-- Decimius Magnus AusoniusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1, 1922.
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It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
-- Derek WalcottSource : Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan
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Every rep that you take off, somebody else gets another look. That's just how I am. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's a matter of being confident and not taking anything for granted.
-- Derrick Brooks -
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
-- Don Johnson -
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
-- Dorothy Height -
I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.
-- Dorothy McGuireSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
-- Eartha Kitt -
The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.
-- Edward Snowden -
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.
-- Emile M. CioranSource : Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books
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I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.
-- Emmylou HarrisSource : "Like baseball, Emmylou Harris is back". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. April 21, 2011.
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I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
-- Esther Williams -
There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.
-- Frances Noyes Hart -
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek -
Do you forget that I am your sister?†“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.
-- Georgette HeyerSource : Georgette Heyer (2011). “Frederica”, p.8, Random House
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As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.
-- Ginny Brown-Waite -
To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
-- Giovanni Pico della MirandolaSource : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”
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I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
-- Herbert CrolySource : Herbert Croly (2017). “Progressive Democracy”, p.215, Routledge
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Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
-- Horace -
I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
-- Huston Smith -
Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.
-- Ibrahim Rugova -
I'm so thankful. I've been blessed. I never took it for granted.
-- Jack Kelley -
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
-- James Madison -
Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.
-- Jan Peter Balkenende -
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.
-- Jane Jacobs -
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I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
-- Jane Pauley -
This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted... again.
-- Jay Asher -
Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.
-- Jennifer WorthSource : Jennifer Worth (2005). “Shadows of the workhouse”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.
-- John BetjemanSource : John Betjeman, “The Hon. Sec”
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The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith' (Lk. 17:5). They did not presume that the fullness of faith would come to them merely because they freely opted for it. They believed, rather, that it was a gift of God which would have to be granted to them.
-- John Cassian -
I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it.
-- Jon LovitzSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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The time for your labor has been granted.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
-- Jorge Luis Borges -
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I'm very blessed and I don't take anything for granted.
-- Julianne HoughSource : "Julianne Hough Dishes on the Men in Her Life: Kevin, Tom & Ryan" by Erin Hill, parade.com. February 1, 2012.
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My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
-- K. D. Lang -
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
-- Karel Capek -
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He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.
-- Ken Follett -
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
-- Kenneth Lee Pike -
You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
-- Kevin Costner -
Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.
-- Kirby Puckett -
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
-- Laura San GiacomoSource : "Laura San Giacomo On New Movie, Son With Cerebral Palsy". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. June 20, 2012.
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You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.
-- Lisa Marie PresleySource : "Allen Evangelista – Project Almanac Actor: Maintaining Perspective". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
-- Lou Gramm -
It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
-- Major Taylor -
Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.
-- Marcus SamuelssonSource : "Helping East Africa: The Basic Necessities and the People Who Go Without" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.
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Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.
-- Margaret LaurenceSource : 1964 The Stone Angel, ch.1.
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The extent to which we take everyday objects for granted is the precise extent to which they govern and inform our lives.
-- Margaret VisserSource : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
-- Mario Andretti -
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
-- Mary StewartSource : Mary Stewart (2011). “My Brother Michael”, p.66, Hachette UK
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
-- Matthew Arnold -
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Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.
-- Matthew Zapruder -
Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.
-- Michael NicholsSource : Michael P. Nichols (2009). “The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships”, p.11, Guilford Press
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Granted that I must die, how shall I live?
-- Michael NovakSource : Michael Novak (1970). “The Experience of Nothingness”, p.46, Transaction Publishers
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Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.
-- Michael SpecterSource : "The danger of science denial" by Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.
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Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.
-- Milan Kundera -
We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
-- Mitch Albom -
With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
-- Mitch Albom -
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How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!
-- Muriel LesterSource : Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”
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I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
-- Narada Michael WaldenSource : "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.
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Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!
-- Natalie Martinez -
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
-- Norbert WienerSource : "A New Theory of Measurement: A Study in the Logic of Mathematics". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society s2-19 (1): 181–205, 1921.
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