Granted Quotes

1339 quotes by 1022 authors

Just as a warrior must anticipate his enemyâ€™s behavior and reactions and understand the dangers, and just as a hunter must know the behavior patterns… — Ori Hofmekler
I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. — Richie Sambora
Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most… — Robert Alan Aurthur
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small,… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire… — Alice Hegan Rice
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes… — Carl Jung
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. — Elie Wiesel
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman. — Victor Hugo
In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be… — Mac Thornberry
We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,… — Elif Safak
Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the most part, we… — Werner Erhard
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the… — Mark Twain
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry… — Bill Gates
Pardon is granted to necessity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all. — Unknown Author
Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely. — Simone de Beauvoir
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used. — Tillie Olsen
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether… — Diana Trilling

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