Granted Quotes - Page 24

• So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

  Niall Ferguson

  Taken, Today, West

  "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners Don't Understand How Vulnerable Freedom Is'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2011.

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• Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

  Peter Singer (1986). “Applied Ethics”, p.225, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Sense Of Humor, Honest

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• The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

  Edith Wharton

  Heart, Differences, People

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.299, Booklassic

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• This was not a spurr-of-the-moment decision. Do not take me for granted... again.

  Jay Asher

  Decision, Moments, Take Me

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• In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.

  Iain Pears

  Ocean, Men, Knowing

  Iain Pears (1999). “An Instance of the Fingerpost”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love... love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too. -Tohrment

  J.R. Ward

  Life And Love, People, Dying

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• I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Men, Dating, Principles

  Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.129, Revell

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• If a guy is taking his girl for granted, he really deserves a slap, with a baseball bat.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Girl, Baseball, Guy

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• We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. The trick is not to amass all the different kinds of power, but to use well the kind you've been granted.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Light, Different

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles, and social order, but don't all the other animals have them too, granted the difference of degree? Perhaps the animals even have religions. Man boasts of being the lord of all creation, but it would seem as if essentially he does not differ in the least from other animals. But, Mother, there was one way I thought of. Perhaps you won't understand. It's a faculty absolutely unique to man - having secrets. Can you see what I mean?

  Osamu Dazai

  Mother, Mean, Men

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• For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.

  Hayley Williams

  Struggle, Taken, Special

  "Paramore hard at work on fourth album" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. April 19, 2012.

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• I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

  Lionel Shriver

  Past, Miracle, Ordinary

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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• I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.

  Emily Giffin

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 2: Baby Proof, Where We Belong, Heart of the Matter”, p.1157, St. Martin's Press

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• I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Phoenix and Ashes: Elemental Masters #3”, p.132, Penguin

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• Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

  Jonathan Evison

  Taken, Thinking, Dust

  Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.221, Head of Zeus

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• There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  One Thing

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.443, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When a man takes a woman for granted, he still looks for reassurance that she is still right there.

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  Sherry Argov

  Men, Looks, Reassurance

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.

  Copyright © by Sherry Argov

  Sherry Argov

  Express Yourself

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• In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Order, Fire

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

  Stephen King

  Taken, Heart, Way

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander

  Paullina Simons

  Giving, Abuse, Weapons

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• I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Toes, Realizing, Guts

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• Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Time Flies, Infinite

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• People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.

  David Levithan

  Love Is, People, Foundation

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.39, Egmont UK

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