Granted Quotes - Page 34

• Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Taken, Ideas, Firsts

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• Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Benefits, May, Littles

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.30, Race Point Publishing

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• I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

  Martial

  Borrowing, Refuse, Asks

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.580

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• Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Progress, Gains

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• What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

  Edgar Degas

  Imagination, Mind, Use

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• Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Littles, Assumption

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

  David Sedaris

  God, Night, Mind

  David Sedaris (2010). “Naked”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Favors

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267, Epigrams, LXXXII. 1, 1922.

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• Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

  Yves Klein

  Eye, Space, Existential

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.

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• Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

  Brian O'Driscoll

  Summer, Disappointment, Careers

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• In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

  David Cameron

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Tories claim 'big change' on poor". news.bbc.co.uk. November 24, 2006.

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• In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Two, Giving, Add

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• There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Mind, Neutrality

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• Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources

  Jewel

  Cancer, War, Years

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• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  Saint Basil

  Heart, Secret, Speech

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• End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Creating, Hot, Stories

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• Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

  Bayard Taylor

  Kissing, Stolen, Stolen Kisses

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162

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• Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Spring, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Lilian Cheung (2010). “Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Order

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• In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Challenges, Training

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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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

  Mma, Single Relationship, Minutes

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• Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

  Joe Rogan

  Teaching, Thinking, Mma

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• 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 Rayner

  Take Nothing For Granted, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

  Lindsey Graham

  Car, People, Wrecks

  "Sen. Lindsey Graham on fighting Islamic State, shoring up Social Security". www.pbs.org. June 4, 2015.

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• In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Powerful, Nice

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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