Granted Quotes - Page 2

• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Education, Teacher

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Taken, Greatness, Want

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  Wade Boggs

  Baseball, Taken, Games

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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

  Words Of Wisdom, Subjects

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• But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

  John Gay

  Life, Sweet, Kissing

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• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, Rights, Law

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• My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Inspirational, Basketball, Stars

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• Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

  Melinda Gates

  Children, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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

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• Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Unique, People

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• And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

  Salma Hayek

  Sports, Flirty, Love You

  "Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan talk about After the Sunset!". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. November 9, 2004.

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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

  Took For Granted

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• Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Dark, Trying, Reason

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• Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

  Theodor Herzl

  Earth, Requirements, Enough

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• 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 Walcott

  Strong Love, Stronger, Broken Pieces

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan

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• 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

  Ties, Mind, Remember

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• The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

  Buffalo Bill

  Men, Slave, States

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• I dont take my fans love and dedication for granted.

  Wynonna Judd

  Dedication, Fans

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• I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

  Esther Williams

  Hollywood, Would Be

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• What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Peace, War

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.206, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• 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

  Materialistic, Loving Relationships, Involved

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.84, Broadway Books

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• Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

  Emma Bonino

  Firsts, Steps, Constitution

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• I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

  Ziggy Marley

  Believe, Tree, Yards

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from May 21, 2012

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• I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

  Sally Field

  Real, Physical Attraction, Persons

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