Granted Quotes - Page 5

• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Taken, Passion

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• For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

  Pete Sampras

  Taken, Winning, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  Iris Murdoch

  Relationship, Happiness, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.148, Penguin

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• Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Country, Strong, Taken

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• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Truth

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Crush, Loyalty, Memories

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• I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

  Sue Townsend

  Husband, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2007.

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Son

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

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• Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

  Helen Rowland

  Girl, Flirty, Sweet Love

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Religious, Jesus, Twilight

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• As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Science, Thoughtful

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Purity, Maldives

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• The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.

  Michael Beckwith

  Taken, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Apr 29, 2016

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• I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, God

  Letter to M. Damilaville, 16 May 1767

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• I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

  James Whistler

  Heaven, Intelligence, Genius

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• How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

  David Wilkerson

  Past, Christian Inspirational, Miracle

  David Wilkerson (2012). “God Is Faithful: A Daily Invitation into the Father Heart of God”, p.247, Baker Books

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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

  Music

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• 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

  Live Life, Daisies, Express Yourself

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• I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Gratitude, Taken, Loss

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• It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

  David Hackworth

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Doors

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• When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Gratitude, Skulls, Taken For Granted

  "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• I've never been the sort of person who takes things for granted, and I'm not an acquisitions girl. So I didn't feel entitled to a car when I was 16. Of course, I was bummed I didn't get one, because I was an American Texas teenager! But I understood it. I've never gotten my self-esteem from having the newest, most spectacular thing.

  Renee Zellweger

  Girl, Teenager, Car

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• While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

  Harriet Martineau

  Strong, Years, Feelings

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.118, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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