Granted Quotes - Page 15

• Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

  Daniel Fried

  Taken, Russia, Achievement

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another set of civil wars in Europe again, ever. That was a fabulous success. It was so fabulous that people now take it for granted.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Two Worlds, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that in the West, many citizens, especially younger citizens, take their freedoms and institutions for granted and focus on their frustrations with their governments' inability to solve pressing problems.

  Kofi Annan

  Frustration, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around with fiction, that I had to find a language and it was not in existance at the time. You have put it very well - it wasn't to be taken for granted. You had to go on and search until you found a way through the conversation of English and Igbo. The two languages stuck into each other and tried to find a way to express through one, the medium of the thoughts. That's a very exciting thing to do, a very difficult thing to do.

  Chinua Achebe

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

  Eminem

  People, Appreciate, Addiction

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

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• The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional and moral challenges that you would never have to confront at home. So I like going out in search of moral and emotional adventure which throws me back upon myself and forces me to reconsider my assumptions and the things I took for granted. It sends me back a different person.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Home, Emotional

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

  Tavis Smiley

  Black, Voters, Republican

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.

  Diane Lane

  Black And White, Thinking, Play

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous and you cannot take anything for granted.

  James Wan

  Thinking, Dangerous, Complacent

  Source: collider.com

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• A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions. I try to presume that no one is interested in me. And I think experience bears that out. No one's interested in the experiences of a stranger - let's put it that way. And then you have difficulty combined with presumptuousness, which is the most dire trouble with poetry.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Thinking, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Granted, terrorism is a real problem everywhere. But you can't prevent it. Terrorists are nutcases who are hellbent on killing people for ideology. That's pretty hard to stop.

  John Dean

  Real, People, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes I feel hesitant in the midst of other architects. I can't help thinking that they know more than I do, but I also feel that maybe I can go in directions they learned you're not supposed to go in.

  Vito Acconci

  Thinking, Discipline, Attention

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• I want to be remembered as kind and generous of spirit and someone who loved to laugh and that I never took my blessings or other people for granted. That the stories I chose to tell benefited the world in some way instead of taking away from it. When I am remembered, I want that person to have a smile on their face.

  Melanie Nicholls-King

  Blessing, People, Laughing

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• Enjoy life's moments. Do not take them for granted, because you never know which one will be the last. Also, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you. In other words, get your priorities straight; figure out what really matters, and focus on that.

  Dule Hill

  Focus, Enjoy Life, Priorities

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

  Boy George

  Growing Up, Selfish, Mean

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years exists is that after World War II, the United States and its allies tried to build an antidote to what they had seen between World War I and World War II. There, they'd seen protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor trading policies, so they said, we'll build an open international economy. And they did that.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, World, Reason

  "Condoleezza Rice: Institutions Aren't Perfect, But They're The Bedrock Of Democracy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 8, 2017.

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• The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Artist, Being An Artist

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• For us, every day is Earth Day. It's like with Women's Day recently, I said, "Every day is women's day - we're women!" It's something that we sort of take for granted.

  Maria Cornejo

  Earth

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When it comes to matters of health, it's the one thing you can't control. Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted. But the few times that I've seen loved ones in the hospital or not being able to do something they could normally do, it really sucks.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Sick, Healthy, Loved Ones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's important to be able to simply ask the questions. Every single advance in science comes about because of courage to ask a question, an outrageous question. Like "Can a large heavy metal object fly if it goes fast enough with the right design?" People's worldviews are changed when they see that something unbelievable is possible. Airplane flight is now taken for granted. And so all wonderful advances start with an outrageous question.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Taken, Airplane, Design

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• I think there is just this inherent understanding between us at a subconscious level when we play. It's like we anticipate each other's next move before it's made and we all land together somehow. It's that "something" that really good bands have that makes what they do unique. It's also something that is easy to take for granted, especially as the years spent performing together go by.

  Edward Kowalczyk

  Moving, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.alternativenation.net

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• Granted, it's a long time ago, it's in the 1940s, and, granted, it's warfare that we hopefully will not conduct in a similar fashion ever again, but it is crucially important. And that act, the storming of the Normandy beaches, coupled with the Battle of the Bulge, ending the spread of Nazism throughout Europe, saved the world and it saved the world for freedom. And it was the United States that did it. And it was a bunch of 19- and 20- and 21-year-old people who did it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fashion, Beach, Long

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have taken us, which is a failure and for them to totally come out and accept is a failure.

  Femi Kuti

  Taken, Thinking, Arrogant

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• We, as a band, love each other. We're brothers. So we fight. Somebody will call somebody else a douchebag. At the end of the day, we look at how far we've come and realize it would be foolish for us to ever take this for granted. We have a family. And not just a family at home, the family that has grown up with us and supported us through the years. We can't let them down.

  Lajon Witherspoon

  Brother, Home, Fighting

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Sometimes people base their identity on their gifting. But our identity is in Christ and ultimately has no relation to whatever gift the Spirit may have granted to us.

  Sam Storms

  People, Identity, Spirit

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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