Granted Quotes - Page 10

• Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift.

  Cindy Ross

  Blessed, Hiking, Mountain

  Cindy Ross (1987). “Journey On the Crest: Walking 2600 Miles from Mexico to Canada”, p.36, Mountaineers Books

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• As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Thinking, Modern Woman, Way

  "Lorraine Toussaint Talks SELMA, Spending Time with the Woman She Plays, Bringing Her Daughter to Set, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are." "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted." "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth." No, you can't.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Views, Ideas

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• We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.

  Sarah Wright

  People, Mind, Important

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• And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .

  George W. Bush

  Military, United States, Use

  "Senators Want to Know Bush Wiretap Authority", www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2005.

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• It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

  Galileo Galilei

  Sky, Envy, Malice

  "How three wise men and a tube helped us find our place in the universe" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2009.

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• It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Harvest

  Albert Schweitzer, Kurt Bergel, Alice R. Bergel (1997). “Memoirs of Childhood and Youth”, p.94, Syracuse University Press

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• Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sunset, Kids

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• I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

  Bill Kirchen

  Perspective, Get Better, Deeper

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• I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

  Phil Elvrum

  Thinking, Careers, Assumption

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Germany, Would Be, Asylums

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The internet has not granted us more control in relation to the record company because we're still bound by an agreement with them not to release our music without their consent. But they generally let us do what we want, anyway, so it doesn't matter who's officially in control.

  Rivers Cuomo

  Agreement, Records, Want

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. January 28, 2008.

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• Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

  Dick Francis

  Looks, Upside Down, Absolutely Nothing

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• Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Prayer, Essence

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Character, Fiction, Scenery

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• In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Men, Competition

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• When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.

  Jeff Myers

  Cities, Common Purpose, Our Generation

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• The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

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• Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Doe, Unemployment, Easier

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• Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

  Leonard Read

  Thinking, Practice

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• Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Expectations, Assuming, Individual

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• We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

  John Key

  Given, Goodwill, Has Beens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Shadow, Dying

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.204, University of Chicago Press

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• The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.

  Kevin DeYoung

  People, Giving, Treasure

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

  Marion Brady

  Suggestions, Attention, Matter

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