Granted Quotes
1339 quotes by 1022 authors
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Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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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.…
— Salma Hayek
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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should…
— Alexis Herman
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I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving…
— Lauryn Hill
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I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
— Aldous Huxley
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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate…
— Janet Jackson
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
— Samuel Johnson
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All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed…
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because…
— Walter Kaufmann
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In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.…
— John F. Kennedy
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
— Eartha Kitt
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I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for…
— Dalai Lama
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money,…
— Hedy Lamarr
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We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.
— Robert Lanza
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I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that…
— Chris LeDoux
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