Granted Quotes - Page 28

• He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Sympathy, Wise

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• In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Details Of Life, Appreciate, Everyday

  Stephen Batchelor (2004). “Living with the devil: a meditation on good and evil”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

  Mariah Carey

  May, Might, Causes

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• The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

  Julian Bond

  Rights, Humanity, Groups

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• We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

  Elliot Morley

  Future, Vision, Generations

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• I think because I really didn't have a good strategy for my campaign. I didn't plan it the right way. ... As a candidate who was already so well known ... I don't think I ever said, 'Yes, you may have known me for eight years, but I don't take anything for granted. I have to earn your support.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Eight, Years

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• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Prayer, Process, Request

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• I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Work, Trying, Hours

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, People, Judging

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• I wish that people would take the time to show people that they are important in their lives, either at work, or at home. Too many times people take others for granted, and I think that needs to change. People are so much nicer and willing to help you if you use those two little words that mean so much . . . 'Thank You!'

  Gina Gillespie

  Change, Home, Mean

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• Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money...and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister...You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

  Arthur Balfour

  Brother, Soup Kitchens, Giving

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• A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture.

  Michelangelo Signorile

  Sex, Fighting, Marriage Equality

  "How We Got to the Supreme Court" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another

  Cyprian

  Believe, Grace, Baptism

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• The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted.... As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 26, 2011

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• Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it with noble precepts, exalted principles, undoubtable arguments, unchallengeable supremacy and undeniable wisdom. It is up to you to maintain the eminence and dignity granted to it by the Lord, to follow it sincerely, to do justice to its articles of faith and belief, to obey implicitly its tenets and orders and to give it the proper place in your lives.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Order

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• Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

  Plato

  Wine, Men, Excellent

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• I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'

  Gerald Asher

  Wine, Play, Two

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• I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Depression, Selfish, Responsibility

  Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books

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• I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

  Sarra Manning

  Missing

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• I gave you my love, I gave you my heart, I gave you everything you ever wanted and all you did was take it for granted...leaving me broken hearted.

  Chris Elam

  Sad Love, Heart, Broken

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• There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet,
  I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.

  Sadat X

  Rap, Mma, Hip Hop

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• Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes.
  My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.

  Slim the Mobster

  Strong, Mistake, Rap

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