Granted Quotes

• One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

  William Graham Sumner

  Rich, One Thing

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.39, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

  Paula Abdul

  Art, Taken, Talent

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Mar 25, 2012

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• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

  Pietro Aretino

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Taken, Justice, Want

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• No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

  W. H. Auden

  Life, Believe, Writing

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Writing"

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• Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Education, Teacher

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Studies'

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• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  Wade Boggs

  Baseball, Taken, Games

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• One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Powerful, Taken

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Taken, Greatness, Want

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Positive Attitude, Opposites

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• It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

  Dick Cheney

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Taken

  "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

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• When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

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• Never take anything for granted.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Children, Maturity, Play

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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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

  Independence, Economy, Beneficial

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 83, 1960.

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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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, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Wise, Wisdom, Taken

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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  When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

  Marilyn Manson

  Love, Dream, Wish

  Song: Man That You Fear, Album: Antichrist Superstar, 1996

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• The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

  Herbert Croly

  Song, Taken, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2017). “Progressive Democracy”, p.215, Routledge

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• Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

  Norman Lear

  Community, Directors, Might

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

  Barbara Steele

  Light, Individualism

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• We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

  Tom Petty

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

  William H. Wharton

  Taken, Government, Land

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