Granted Quotes - Page 6

• Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Taken, Fog, Life Is

  "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, (ch. 7), 1993.

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• [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Names, Tolerance, Demand

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• 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 Samuelsson

  Water, Rural Areas, Clean

  "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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• You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

  Robert Kennedy

  Taken, Given

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those in authority must know what they are doing, and must be describing our condition to us as it really is; they still take it for granted that somehow what is, what is done, must make sense, can't really be insane. These assumptions exercise a tyranny over their minds.

  Barbara Deming

  Exercise, Mind, Insane

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• In 1956 I was granted the biggest reward of my career: my wife, Josée Jongen.

  Bobbejaan Schoepen

  Careers, Wife, Rewards

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• There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

  Frances Noyes Hart

  Doubt, Mind, Application

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• Every job I take, within minutes Im thinking, I cant do this. I think its what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. Its what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

  Ray Winstone

  Jobs, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Those three years on Loving were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldnt come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.

  Michael Weatherly

  Moving, Years, Missing

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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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• Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.

  Marilyn French

  Eye, Milk, Tvs

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, Religion

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.210

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• If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Land, Giving, Proud

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• Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.

  Richard Dennis

  Mad, Majority, Crowds

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• The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, Power, Opportunity

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

  Ruth Rendell

  Children, Heart, Secret

  Ruth Rendell (2010). “Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)”, p.61, Random House

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• Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, Reality, Rights

  "UN Expert Calls on Countries to Strengthen Protection of Civil Society Voices, Whistleblowers". news.un.org. September 11, 2013.

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• uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.

  Gwen Bristow

  Taken, Teaching, Ideas

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• I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome but it's not like I only drink milk.

  Carrie Underwood

  Drink Milk, Going Out, Clubs

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• I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can be what they want to be. All I ever wanted was to be a good husband and father, a good chef, and to have my own restaurant. And the celebrity was never expected. Wouldn't have even dared dream of it. And here I am. So anyone's dreams can come true. And I'm very, very grateful for everything that's come my way. I thank everyone who enjoys what I do.

  Guy Fieri

  Dream, Country, Husband

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• Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Honesty, Writing, Simple

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• How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

  Muriel Lester

  Gratitude, Wonder, Insensitive

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Its always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.

  Darren Criss

  Important, Situation

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• To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Tongue, Innocence

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.78

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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 Moriarty

  Believe, Littles, Ifs

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