Granted Quotes

1339 quotes by 1022 authors

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted. — Rebecca MacKinnon
The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example,… — Bill Dedman
Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than… — Stephen Kinzer
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new… — Barton Gellman
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones.… — Barton Gellman
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just… — J. G. Ballard
We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired. — Nicole Ari Parker
For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States. — Alex Berenson
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them… — Yahya Jammeh
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. — Jules Verne
Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it. — Paul Coffey
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system. — Paul Singer
As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the… — Lorraine Toussaint
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took… — Tansy Rayner Roberts
In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power… — Karen Abbott
I tried never to take anything for granted. — Cilla Black
There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or… — Sarah Doudney
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action,… — Garry Disher

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