Granted Quotes

1339 quotes by 1022 authors

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath… — Thomas Merton
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share… — Alberto Manguel
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man,… — Henry Miller
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as… — George Orwell
Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or… — Robert Bloch
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected… — Virginia Woolf
...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage — Plutarch
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He… — Libba Bray
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point… — Jodi Picoult
...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious. — John le Carre
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world… — Michel Houellebecq
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I… — Sylvia Plath
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… — Boris Pasternak
One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is… — Lisa Kleypas
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I… — Rabindranath Tagore
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted. — Jasper Fforde
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… — Beryl Markham
That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians,… — Jonathan Stroud
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to… — Margaret Atwood

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